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Re: Statichost.eu – European static site hosting

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Post by mtlynch » Sat, Sep 05, 2026, 1:12 PM UTC

flyingshelf wrote: post #115

mtlynch wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> An EU tiny VPS on Scaleway with unlimited bandwidth costs 5€. This thing costs 9€. With limited bandwidth. statichost.eu is a CDN,[0] not a single static host. Your VPS is the single point of failure, so if that one system goes down, your site is offline. With a VPS, you'd also have to roll your own atomic updates, which is not the hardest thing in the world, but it's also not trivial. Compare it to static hosting…

Netlify and vercel have a generous free tier, I never paid a dime. What you might eventually pay for in those services is the exceptional DX, which this amateurish service will never get close to. All this to say that 9€/month is way too expensive.

What's the price that you expect to pay to a service run by a single person that has to keep your website available 24/7?

I get frustrated that people seem pretty aware of the enshittification and centralization of large services, but when an indie vendor pops up that can fill a niche, people expect it to have all the bells and whistles of a billion dollar company and also give everything away for free.

If you have a just for fun website, then yeah, hop around the free tiers of whatever hosting service. If you're running any kind of online business, the difference between free and 9€/month for web hosting is a rounding error to pretty much any other business expenses you have.

Also, keep in mind that on the 9€/month plan, that's the max you pay. With Vercel, Netlify, Firebase, etc., if you get hit with a bot attack, they come after you for $100k+ and you have to beg on social media for them to call off the collectors.[0]

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/1b14bty/netlify_jus...

Re: Statichost.eu – European static site hosting

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Post by embedding-shape » Sat, Sep 05, 2026, 1:13 PM UTC

mtlynch wrote: post #54

I've been looking for a new static host recently since Netlify raised prices and is terrible at preventing bot traffic. Here was my assessment of Netlify from the perspective of a small customer who just wants static hosting (and not build minutes). Pros: - Run by a single person, so customer service is responsive and comprehensive - Focused mainly on static hosting without extra complexity Cons: - Run by a single pe…

So, just as a curiosity, why don't you create a $5/month VPS or something even cheaper, throw nginx/apache/caddy on there, make it fetch from a git repository once a minute or whatever, then call it a day? What does the service need to provide for it to be worth paying so much more for?

This $5/month VPS can effectively handle hosting 100s of static websites for you without breaking a sweat, unless you're doing something seriously wrong.

Re: Statichost.eu – European static site hosting

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Post by embedding-shape » Sat, Sep 05, 2026, 1:15 PM UTC

flyingshelf wrote: post #104

omnimus wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The website says European not EU. UK is without much doubt in europe.

> You can register and use a .eu domain if you are an EU or EEA citizen regardless of where you live, a resident in the European Union or European Economic Area, or a business or organization established within the EU/EEA. UK is neither.

The company itself is located in all of those essentially (Sweden), what seems to be located in UK is the "datacamp" thing.

Re: Statichost.eu – European static site hosting

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Post by nosioptar » Sat, Sep 05, 2026, 1:21 PM UTC

nonethewiser wrote: post #62

Wait, so Europeans dont want to use github pages? And would rather pay 9 euros/month?

As an american, I'd rather pay than use github's free pages.

I'd go with sourcehut's pages @ €4 per month over statichost if I wanted to specifically go EU. (If not I'd go with nearlyfreespeech for $2ish per month.)

Re: Statichost.eu – European static site hosting

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Post by undefeated » Sat, Sep 05, 2026, 1:23 PM UTC

I can kind of see it, but hetzner costs, what, 5€/m for your own server with 10TB traffic included? How is a 4€/m markup remotely justified for what amounts to setting up an apache server and pointing a domain at it? And cutting traffic to a twentieth?

Re: Statichost.eu – European static site hosting

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Post by throwfaraway135 » Sat, Sep 05, 2026, 1:35 PM UTC

utopiah wrote: post #133

throwfaraway135 wrote: post #132

I don't trust anything governed by the EU government, they will censor/take down anything that's even mildly inconvenient for them.

Which government do you trust more then?

In our current age none of them.

Re: Statichost.eu – European static site hosting

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Post by jeremyjh » Sat, Sep 05, 2026, 1:53 PM UTC

cxr wrote: post #136

jeremyjh wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> journal .. config file .. ideas or notes

So, not code for personal projects? Right? A private git repo with my own code, is not permitted.

More to the point of this thread - there is no specific affordance for a personal website.

Re: Statichost.eu – European static site hosting

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Post by jeremyjh » Sat, Sep 05, 2026, 1:55 PM UTC

embedding-shape wrote: post #160

jasonvorhe wrote: post #150

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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 i…

> , 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. Yeah, I think this is a win-win for both parties. You strike me as someone who would "ride along the lines of the terms of service" basically, and you'll see anything not explicitly forbidden as being allowed essentially. While Codeberg is a project driven by humans, with h…

> "ride along the terms of service"

By using AI to write code, like virtually everyone does? Tell me, what indication was there in their TOS, that this might be close to a line?

Re: Statichost.eu – European static site hosting

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Post by l_h » Sat, Sep 05, 2026, 2:05 PM UTC

undefeated wrote: post #165

I can kind of see it, but hetzner costs, what, 5€/m for your own server with 10TB traffic included? How is a 4€/m markup remotely justified for what amounts to setting up an apache server and pointing a domain at it? And cutting traffic to a twentieth?

Some (or maybe even most) people just want something that works, without dealing with the maintenance.

Re: Statichost.eu – European static site hosting

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Post by FabCH » Sat, Sep 05, 2026, 2:17 PM UTC

embedding-shape wrote: post #160

jasonvorhe wrote: post #150

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 i…

> , 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. Yeah, I think this is a win-win for both parties. You strike me as someone who would "ride along the lines of the terms of service" basically, and you'll see anything not explicitly forbidden as being allowed essentially. While Codeberg is a project driven by humans, with h…

Why do you assume they will be ok with it?

They recently made some very ideological decisions…