As a front end developer I’m sometimes confront to projects where I need to deal with only static HTML files. Being able to use inclusions in PHP makes it so much easier to maintain.
I’m a Git fan and I usually use Github as remote repository, it allows the creation of a gh-page branch. Basically it means you can have a static web page for your Github project for free. Really it’s easy here’s the Github doc.
Github pages are awesome but it’s then impossible to use php includes in them…