I have a couple of side projects that are non-commercial / hobby type that I found GitHub pages to be suitable and sufficient since I was using pure HTML/CSS/Ja

I have a couple of side projects that are non-commercial / hobby type that I found GitHub pages to be suitable and sufficient since I was using pure HTML/CSS/Javascript for the app. So, it really depends on the tech stack you are using. If you need to provision non-trivial infrastructure, cloud or VPS might be better suited.