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Re: Statichost.eu – European static site hosting

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Post by mtlynch »

FabCH wrote: post #189
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…

Can I just point out that either the vendor is small and therefor can’t actually offer the N+2 reliability you list as a weakness of self-hosting, or they are large enough for N+2 but then stop being small. My tiny website doesn’t need a CDN and doesn’t need atomic updates.

> Can I just point out that either the vendor is small and therefor can’t actually offer the N+2 reliability you list as a weakness of self-hosting, or they are large enough for N+2 but then stop being small.

I don't understand what you mean. surge.sh and statichost.eu are both small vendors that offer redundancy. Are you saying they're not really small or not really offering N+2 reliability?

Re: Statichost.eu – European static site hosting

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Post by FabCH »

mtlynch wrote: post #211
FabCH wrote: post #189

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can I just point out that either the vendor is small and therefor can’t actually offer the N+2 reliability you list as a weakness of self-hosting, or they are large enough for N+2 but then stop being small. My tiny website doesn’t need a CDN and doesn’t need atomic updates.

> Can I just point out that either the vendor is small and therefor can’t actually offer the N+2 reliability you list as a weakness of self-hosting, or they are large enough for N+2 but then stop being small. I don't understand what you mean. surge.sh and statichost.eu are both small vendors that offer redundancy. Are you saying they're not really small or not really offering N+2 reliability?

From what they list on the website, they don’t offer N+2 reliability / they are not present in sufficient geos to actually act as a CDN.

Re: Statichost.eu – European static site hosting

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Post by FabCH »

embedding-shape wrote: post #179
FabCH wrote: post #170

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why do you assume they will be ok with it? They recently made some very ideological decisions…

I didn't? Maybe I didn't explain properly, what did you understood I said/wrote?

„ and if your intention is fine and good, they'll be OK with it“

That doesn’t work because „fine and good“ doesn’t mean the same thing to Codeberg voters/admins and to a large part of the hacke news population. Notably, Codeberg is morally opposed to AI.

Re: Statichost.eu – European static site hosting

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Post by mtlynch »

FabCH wrote: post #212
mtlynch wrote: post #211

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Can I just point out that either the vendor is small and therefor can’t actually offer the N+2 reliability you list as a weakness of self-hosting, or they are large enough for N+2 but then stop being small. I don't understand what you mean. surge.sh and statichost.eu are both small vendors that offer redundancy. Are you saying they're not really small or not really offering N+2 reliability?

From what they list on the website, they don’t offer N+2 reliability / they are not present in sufficient geos to actually act as a CDN.

Which vendor are you talking about?

As I mentioned upthread, statichost.eu uses Bunny under the covers, and I think you'd be hard-pressed to argue that Bunny isn't a CDN.

surge.sh has servers in 10 regions.[0]

It's not trivial to run a static host with redundancy in multiple regions, but it's also not so absurdly complex that only large vendors can achieve it.

[0] https://surge.sh/network

Re: Statichost.eu – European static site hosting

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Post by mtlynch »

flyingshelf wrote: post #188
mtlynch wrote: post #161

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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…

That's a lie. 9€ is not the max you pay, it's metered and extra traffic costs extra. So what you said about others can just as well apply here. What I see is some homemade service that costs $125/year and has little to show for it. There's nothing about what it offers on the website, the homepage has a handful of words. It claims "CDN" but doesn't say anything about what the exit points are. All I see is two "datacen…

> That's a lie. 9€ is not the max you pay, it's metered and extra traffic costs extra. So what you said about others can just as well apply here.

From the pricing FAQ[0]:

> Can I set a spending limit for overages?

> Yes. Please contact support in order to set up your spending limit.

None of the others support spending limits last I checked.

[0] https://www.statichost.eu/pricing/

Re: Statichost.eu – European static site hosting

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Post by [deleted] »

cxr wrote: post #204
jeremyjh wrote: post #167

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> 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.

> So, not code for personal projects? Right? No, not right. Still wrong: " Use it for your personal notes, your side project or any other[sic] you want to keep private ". (That's even ignoring that I was addressing the claim that you actually made, which is different from the one you're making now; you're moving the goalposts.)

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Re: Statichost.eu – European static site hosting

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Post by cxr »

jeremyjh wrote: post #209
cxr wrote: post #204

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> So, not code for personal projects? Right? No, not right. Still wrong: " Use it for your personal notes, your side project or any other[sic] you want to keep private ". (That's even ignoring that I was addressing the claim that you actually made, which is different from the one you're making now; you're moving the goalposts.)

That language is not in the terms of service. The word "side" does not appear on that page. The terms of service state: > Private repositories are only allowed for things required for FLOSS projects, like storing secrets, team-internal discussions or hiding projects from the public until they're ready for usage and/or contribution. They are also allowed for really small & personal stuff like your journal, config file…

You have made two concrete claims about Codeberg that are verifiably untrue:

"Codeberg does not permit personal repos"

"A private git repo with my own code, is not permitted"

Codeberg's policy explicitly permits personal repos, including private code repos. Both of your claims are false. There is no getting around this, no matter how much you try to move the goalposts or the other forms of conversational misdirection you're trying to pull off here.

Re: Statichost.eu – European static site hosting

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Post by olivierestsage »

pkal wrote: post #2

I'm using this for my mother's website ( https://www.touchofglass.eu/ ), and my only complaint is that it assumes you version a website in a Git repository. You can work around it by uploading a tarball or something like that, but it is far less convenient than using sftp/rsync. But considering that we are far into the free 10GB a month and I only have to update it very infrequently, it seemed like the best solution.

Exquisite work. I love Point of Departure.
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