"Jamstack" sites, in their simple form, or even combined with a modest number of lambda functions, can be deployed to github pages / netlify / vercel and a number of other platforms for free. Push a commit to github, get an automatic deployment going, boom, done. I am not aware of any analogues in the php ecosystem.
You dont need to sign up to multiple sites and maintain multiple accounts. You don't even need to use Git or lambda functions. That's what I mean by jumping through hoops. With PHP I just upload the file and done. Nothing beats this simplicity. For simple stuff, it's my favorite.
"Jamstack" sites, in their simple form, or even combined with a modest number of lambda functions, can be deployed to github pages / netlify / vercel and a number of other platforms for free. Push a commit to github, get an automatic deployment going, boom, done. I am not aware of any analogues in the php ecosystem.