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Re: Statichost.eu – European static site hosting

#141

It sucks that we got to "European" being used as a main selling point.

However, I am not sure why European mass surveillance and imperialism are supposed to be any better than those of any other country. Somehow that never gets answered on sites like that.

simply put, they aren’t the big bully. they don’t have the worlds strongest army and control of the most important currency to strongarm pretty much anyone who stands in the way.

i agree with your sentiment though.

Re: Statichost.eu – European static site hosting

#144
post #80

Their certificate is issued by Let's Encrypt ...

Why is that worth mentioning?

Because it looks like they are trying to appeal to people interested in European digital autonomy, but ISRG, the organization behind Let's Encrypt, is based in the US and has to comply with US sanctions.

Re: Statichost.eu – European static site hosting

#145

> Not just servers in Europe. A European company Come on, even the claim is sloppified! It's not this, it's that!

As an european I approve of the claim being "Its not this, its that", because for once its an actual good use of it, as many things claim to be european when in actuality they are american companies, hosting their stuff in an aws/azure european data region, so not really european at all.

Re: Statichost.eu – European static site hosting

#146
post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why should it be? In my experience it depends on the case, and in my case it seems like an absolute technological overkill to version the site and have statichost regularly pull from some repository, as I update it perhaps once a year.

I mean, versioning is basically free from a technical / storage / time spent standpoint, and my experience says that if you don’t do it you likely will lose your code at some point

To be fair you can have versions and backups even if you don't use a versioning tool like git. Good old _v2, _v3, _v4.

Re: Statichost.eu – European static site hosting

#147
post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why should it be? In my experience it depends on the case, and in my case it seems like an absolute technological overkill to version the site and have statichost regularly pull from some repository, as I update it perhaps once a year.

I mean, versioning is basically free from a technical / storage / time spent standpoint, and my experience says that if you don’t do it you likely will lose your code at some point

If you're making static websites, there's no code to lose.

Re: Statichost.eu – European static site hosting

#148

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean, versioning is basically free from a technical / storage / time spent standpoint, and my experience says that if you don’t do it you likely will lose your code at some point

To be fair you can have versions and backups even if you don't use a versioning tool like git. Good old _v2, _v3, _v4.

Fair, but like, why??

Re: Statichost.eu – European static site hosting

#149
post #44

wtf is a build minute and why is it metered

i was also extremely confused by this

I tried this few weeks ago and there was no authentication on rebuild trigger, so anyone who knows your site url can start build and deploy. I don't know if things have improved since then.

Re: Statichost.eu – European static site hosting

#150
post #136

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Codeberg does not permit personal repos, it is strictly for open source project communities. Also, it is painfully slow if you are working in a repo of any size. Codefloe is professionally hosted on a robust platform - it could probably support about 10x the volume Codeberg has currently with good performance. I have not used the other options you mentioned but I've long admired what Framasoft is doing. I'm not sure…

The amount of Codeberg FUD one can encounter on HN is unreal. I'm starting to question whether there's an organized effort behind it. Both personal and private repos are explicitly permitted in the Codeberg TOS: > Private repositories[…] allowed for really small & personal stuff like your journal, config files, ideas or notes, but explicitly not as a personal cloud or media storage.

As if there wasn't a massive amount of nuance between "you may keep your dotfiles private but don't upload your photo library". If their rules read this arbitrary, I wouldn't trust them to host any of my stuff, especially considering that you always have to hope they don't change their rules any further.

Assume you did some local LLM stuff in June that worked with a 200MB set of various jpegs and you wanted to keep it private: Is this still legit in September 2026? I wouldn't rely on it.

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