[tetris11]

But then you need to fight bots day and night and do some serious sandboxing on your server which you might be using for other things and is likely to have other accessible endpoints for people to exploit.

You also might not want your IP to be indexed by crawlers. Offloading the burden of hosting onto an already public site mitigates a lot of those issues.

If it wasn't Github it would be Gitlab, if not Gitlab, somewhere else I'm sure.

The point being you shouldn't need to soapbox from your doorstep, but use the commons as intended

[krupan]

"But then you need to fight bots day and night and do some serious sandboxing on your server which you might be using for other things and is likely to have other accessible endpoints for people to exploit."

For a static read-only website? No, that's not necessary.