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Nginx.

Nginx is a web server though. You're assuming that by "web server" the first comment meant "web framework"?

Cloudflare

Last I checked cloudflare was running nginx.

Github/Gitlab pages is my choice for being free, managing https and just generally being pretty good. You can even use the CI to compile the site for you.

Ah, kids these days. So I guess by "webserver" grandparent meant "A server you actually control", and by "not webserver" people mean "It's on the cloud somewhere".

GH/GL-pages still respond to HTTP/HTTPS requests, in my dictionary that's a webserver, but I guess for the millennials (I say with snark) it means "I don't have to think about what happens, it just serves my content for me."

I read "do you need a webserver" like "do you need one yourself" and freeloading off someone elses server like with GL pages counts as not having a webserver. Otherwise how else would you serve content?

S3 (+ optionally a CDN)