Hugo is popular and easy, and I hear Jekyll is a little out of style, but Gatsby and Astro are good. My own blog uses Hugo off-the-shelf with a semi-custom theme, and it works great. This is all hosted on a $4/month VPS with nginx (allowing me to add some custom code or other things if I want to), and has cloudflare in front of it. I hear cloudflare pages and GitHub pages are pretty popular for hosting, though.