When this site was first created, it was hosted directly on GCP using Google Cloud Storage. That setup worked reasonably well, and by selecting regions carefully, the hosting cost was zero for modest traffic volumes.
However, raw storage bucket hosting presented two key drawbacks:
- No built-in HTTPS/SSL certificate provisioning without additional load balancers.
- Deployments required manual command-line uploads or custom sync scripts.
Moving to continuous static hosting platforms (such as Netlify or Cloudflare Pages) solved both problems cleanly: automatic deployment on git push, free managed SSL certificates, and instantaneous global CDN distribution.