Round for #AskFedi: recommendations on static website hosting

Leveraging #AskFedi for an answer: I'm looking for recommendations on hosting for a static website that fulfills as much as possible of the following:

1. Allows me to mass rsync or otherwise copy content from my computer without having to use their (yikes!) "editor" or file-by-file upload. Something like what you get in the Tildeverse would be perfect. Perhaps shell access is what I'm looking for here?
2. Free tier available (not exactly employed right now). Bandwidth or space limitations in the free tier are OK, ad injections over the pages are not.
3. Can host a domain name in such free tier. This might be a stretch, though.
4. As far away as possible from Big Tech (Github pages, AWS, Oracle, Digital Ocean, etc)

What I've considered already:

• Neocities: awesome spirit, awesome community, but fails #1 hard. The closest they give you (in their paid plan) is a remote-mountable WebDAV interface (similar to NextCloud, I would think?), which feels a little weird. Their free tier is quite generous in terms of resource allocation, though.
• Git repository based solution: commit-to-publish works great. However, feels a little weird when playing with own domain (no www redirection, confusion regarding canonical pages, etc). Also, two of the biggest players are Big Tech-natives (Hub, Lab). Perhaps Codeberg Pages could change the game? Looks like they even support Canonicals.
• Free "Cloud" tiers: the word "cloud" alone gives me the technological heebie-jeebies. However, there might really be no other option that fullfils 1~3 otherwise. Unless somebody can suggest me a less Big Tech-centric cloud provider?

And there it is, my question to the Fediverse. I'm literally open to any suggestion considering the above. What's your take? Let me know in Mastodon!