FYI: Will usually remove content/articles tethered to a paid service (see about link at the bottom of the site)
Leaving this as it does provide some value beyond the link to the commercial Netlify site. I also know a lot of people do get a lot of utility from the free level.
Some suggestions for followup for those that want to brew their own solution would be to look at github/gitlab automation options, and take a look at Dokku, which is really great for targeted deployments at small scale. A $10/month account from DigitalOcean or Linode, or any VPS will pretty much do the job for mostly static or small scale sites/apps. Dokku also has a pretty transparent plugin for use with Let's Encrypt (make sure to enable the cron event, and set your email environment variable)