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AWS S3 lets you upload all content to a bucket, then mark it as a website. If usage is not too heavy, it can stay under the free tier.
But a favorite free one is Cloudflare pages: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/techtips/deploying-static-website-to-cloudflare-pages/
You can keep your content on github, connect it to a CF page, and have it auto-update on push to github.
Neocities?
I also thought about it, but the custom domain feature only works on the $5 / month plan.
Some domain registers offer free webspace with the domain. OVH for example gives 100mb (incl. php) which is more than sufficient for a simple website.
I think vercel (formerly zeit.co) has a free tier for static websites.
Besides other pages alternatives you could try a cheap vps. They start as low as $10/year and any will be plenty for a static site. It's also fun to play around with hosting other stuff. lowendbox.com has some good listings.
So, uh...
Digital Ocean Is pretty inexpensive at US$7 monthly for 1 vCPU/1GB RAM with 1TB transfer. Decent platform. US-based, alas.
(2025 September, for the archives)
Oracle Cloud will give you far more for free.
Oracle Cloud will also delete your shit for the price of admission.
Caveat emptor, hey?
I have not deployed Garage S3, but it has a static pages feature you could use — just buid your static files with jekyl or something, create a bucket and set the permissions.
Digital Ocean's app platform offers a toer tier to deploy static sites from Github and a few other places.
If you want free static hosting then probably: https://wasmer.io/
If you have the machine at home then you could set up port forwarding to it, but you would need to do everything yourself like: