"Static sites are basically free to host." That's mostly true, until it suddenly isn't. On Azure, the same pile of HTML, CSS and JavaScript can cost $0, $9, $69 or $1,869 a month . What changes the bill is how big the site is, and above all how much of it people download. I wanted to know exactly where each one of my sites would sit as it grows. So I priced five static sites, from a tiny portfolio to a site serving 20 TB a month, against every reasonable way to host them on Azure. ...