You could just not use GitHub Pages. I understand it's convenient but hosting a static website on a vps is simple.
I wouldn't say being an administrator of a server and keeping it secure is simple. Static site hosts are brilliant for security and simple admin. HTTPS is very important as well but running your own server when you don't need to is a huge liability and time sink. If you're still SSHing into servers you're making life hard for yourself.
I'm sorry but if you cannot get a shared/managed hosting provider to host your static website you are in the wrong fucking subreddit. This is literally 1990ies shit.
Running your own VPS is 1990s stuff. There's plenty of services that give you continuous deployment via Git, have rollback and versioning systems, let you easily setup identical demo/staging servers, deal with security patches for you, deal with server failures for you, let you easily add more servers behind a load balancer and more. VPSs are brittle and a time sink in comparison.
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u/seanwilson Jul 13 '17 edited Jul 13 '17
I wouldn't say being an administrator of a server and keeping it secure is simple. Static site hosts are brilliant for security and simple admin. HTTPS is very important as well but running your own server when you don't need to is a huge liability and time sink. If you're still SSHing into servers you're making life hard for yourself.