Disclaimer: I'm a founder of Site44. Like some of the commenters here, I looked around for simple static website hosting when I was trying to find a new home f

Disclaimer: I'm a founder of Site44. Like some of the commenters here, I looked around for simple static website hosting when I was trying to find a new home for my blog. I considered Heroku, GitHub Pages, and S3. Heroku didn't seem particularly optimized for static hosting (e.g., dyno spin-up time), and GitHub Pages lacked some flexibility (like custom mime types for my extension-less URLs). S3 doesn't handle things like sending gzipped content to only browsers that support it. Ultimately, my cofounder and I decided to build our own solution based on Dropbox: http://www.site44.com http://www.site44.com. Site44 is in a private beta now, but we're hoping to move to a public beta very soon. I'd love to get some feedback from HN. The basic idea is that when you create a site (<foo>.site44.com or a custom domain), we create a folder for you in Dropbox, and then you publish by just modifying the contents of that folder.