01Actions is good engineering
Hosting a static site from a GitHub Actions workflow is a legitimate, working answer, and plenty of sites run that way. If your team already operates CI, a deploy workflow is one more file in a system you staff anyway, reviewed like code and versioned with everything else. Nothing on this page argues against it.
The question worth asking is narrower: what does that file cost after the day you wrote it, and who pays when it breaks at an inconvenient hour? For a solo site maintained by an agent, the honest answer is usually more than expected. The pillar page frames the wider choice.
02What the workflow file owns
03The same jobs without a workflow
LoomWeb runs those steps as the product instead of as your code. The webhook watches the default branch, the build is validated, the release is served, and the history with rollback comes with it. The credential is an OAuth grant scoped to the repositories you chose, revocable from GitHub in one click, rather than a secret pasted into a settings page. Nothing in the repository exists to keep deployment alive, which removes the one file your agent did not write and cannot be blamed for breaking.
The mechanics live on the deploy guide; this page stays on the comparison.
04Two kinds of hosting project
Keep your workflow when
You already run CI for tests, so the pipeline has staff. The deploy needs choreography a standard static build does not offer; that is a real reason and not a preference. Or the site is one part of a larger release process with its own rules.
Hand it over when
The workflow exists only to copy files to a host. The site is maintained by an agent that inherited a file it did not write. Or a red run has ever ruined an evening, and nobody was paid to care about it.
05Workflow questions, short answers
Can a repository that already uses Actions move over?
The repository does not change. Whether you delete the workflow file is housekeeping; deploys here come from the built-in pipeline, so the file stops being load-bearing either way.
Does this run my tests too?
No, and we will not claim it does. Deploys here are about serving; the build is validated, not tested. Keep tests wherever they run today.
Is standard the same as limiting?
Sometimes, yes. The managed pipeline builds a standard static site. If your build genuinely needs custom steps, keeping your own workflow is the right call and no page here should talk you out of it.
What does it cost to try?
A 14-day trial with nothing charged at signup; the workflow can coexist with it while you compare.
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