Thanks for the info/.
I use 000webhost, really good!
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Why not just use githubpages 
much simpler to host on for starters
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Hereās a youtube tutorial on setting up a github page and linking it to a domain name: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiOgz3nKpgk
Some parts explain things you might already know since itās beginner friendly, it should help in getting you up and running.
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Thanks!!!
thank you for your information.
Nooooo!! 
not necessarily. I have registered a bunch of domain names with the .tk
Just go to freenom.com and get yours!
You will need to point that name to a location somewhere because they do not provide hosting , but that is something you have already sorted out in this thread.
Isnāt it cool??
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Now I see that chilace did mention freenom before I did. I have not checked the 000webhost someone mentioned above. If you can use also PHP and mySql it is a BIG plus. I should try it
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Iāve just started using Netlify to host a Metalsmith website ā the pro plan is free for open soure projects (my project is groundwork.rocks)
also worth a look is now by zeit. I havenāt used it yet but simple app for global deployments.
edit: just saw @Chilace recommending Netlify! +1
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Github pages is ok too. I think surge is a lot easier though. I guess it depends on if youāre comfortable on the command line.
Iām happy you posted your question. The responses were very informative and you found several great answers. I learned a lot. Thanks.
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Yeah. Thats the great thing about this community.
Thereās always some limitations with free hosting (like limiting what kind of scripts you can use in php for security reasons, to you canāt upload certain filesā¦).
Hereās some other free hosting Iāve searched for that offers/or let you use letsencrypt.org, Iāve havenāt tried it yet, but may switch from biz.nf as it is limiting.
https://byet.host/free-hosting
https://profreehost.com
While https://www.000webhost.com/features and a lot of other free hosting doesnāt offer free/self hosted ssl.
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The cheapest shared hosting Iāve found is Hostinger.com at about $3/mo. Iām using it for my portfolio site (which started in FCC) http://chuckphipps.me. Chat help is very good and load speeds are good. NameCheap is also where you get good prices on domain name registration, and theyāre easy to point to your hosting service.
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You could try Profreehost free web hosting service. Itās really good and comes with ton of features for a free account. You will get 400 databases, unlimited sub-domains, unlimited bandwidth, industry level cPanel, etc. All the above features are free.
I use the same service at present and its good.
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After one year learning here and other great places, (I still learning actually) iāve been developing a website for the company that i work and i hosted for free on Heroku, at this time, i use Amazonaws for assets, Bitbucket for source code and Heroku for the hosting, all this for free until your work stops being at the beginer level and you realize that you need better resources. This mont i start paying at Heroku and amazonaws because on Amazonaws you use their tools free for the first year and then you paid for what you use, and on Heroku because i need more memory quota than the one they provide for free.
I learned that you need to start to use some of the better tools you can find, this way, when you develop something that you can sell, you already know how to use some of the tools that profesionals use. There are many places for free webhosting and free domains but, are you going to use this on a professional level?. Why not to better start at the most higer level you can?
The site iĀ“m developing use Ruby on Rails, PostrgreSQL, Bootstrap, AWS S3, AWS CloudFront, Heroku and started paying NADA.
For quick review of your static code posted to github try rawgit and follow the linking instruction on the front page. Recently I participated in a hackathon and we were able to deliver a fully functioning app by creating an html shell served by rawgit directly from github and delivered the functionality from a very high end server into an IFRAME tag of that static page. The sponsors provided a coupon to pay for the high end database server.