$5 a month is not cheap for static sites like hers. I have been hosting my minimal static website on GH Pages for a long time (and I've used it for testing man

$5 a month is not cheap for static sites like hers. I have been hosting my minimal static website on GH Pages for a long time (and I've used it for testing many static websites) for free. And I've been browsing blogs/websites hosted on it with no issues. It's probably her host using a wonky server.