Recently I needed a simple and fast way for serving a basic static website.
I ended up with a simple Ruby and Rack/Thin-based application, suitable for deploying to Heroku. Which means more or less no maintenance and it supports SSL - which is good in this case. For even simpler free HTML cloud hosting check out GitHub Pages.
For SSL support Rack::SslEnforcer
is used.
{% gist 4181366 %}
Run it locally
$ rackup