I "self-host" using Pelican + S3. It's super cheap (< $1/month) and pretty easy, the only real downside is that all of the Pelican themes are really ugly, and I'm not good enough at design to make a better one.
I'm assuming Pelican is a generator. I don't understand why there aren't better, simple solutions to do this and just host the site in a bucket on S3. Most people will fit in the free tier of usage and you stay in complete control of your domain and content.
You needn't be limited to using Pelican themes. Pelican uses Jinja2 for templating, so it's very simple to migrate templates over to the platform with an hour or so (if that!) of tweaking.
