Ask HN: Best personal website hosting service?

There are a couple of options:

- Github Pages - Static Website on personal domain - Wordpress/Blogger

It'll be a text-only static website. Does having your own domain name really matter? Do people take your work more seriously after that? All other options are free, and Github Pages is exactly the same as a static website on a personal domain except it's free.

I'm a student, if that's relevant.