Deploying a static site to Heroku

Apparently Heroku is not meant to host static content, but it is possible. One way is to use the PHP buildpack (and probably other buildpacks that include servers like Apache or nginx). This approach requires to set a couple configuration files in place but still it was quite simple —and worked:

http://dev.edenspiekermann.com/2016/03/29/jekyll-on-heroku/