Statichost.eu – European static site hosting • Hacker News Board

Re: Statichost.eu – European static site hosting

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Post by squarefoot » Mon, Sep 07, 2026, 6:32 AM UTC

kyledrake wrote: post #39

squarefoot wrote: post #18

How does it compare to neocities.org, which is sadly not EU?

It seems to be more focused on business static hosting, which Neocities definitely is not. There's at least a dozen business static web hosting solutions out there and we're happy to share space with them. Aside from that, it's claiming to be based in Europe instead of the US and proposing that as the value proposition. We have servers all over the world, including in Europe, but we're required to be in the US for th…

The main concern isn't much about privacy, we have our share of crazy laws as well, age id, etc. sadly, that's where the society is heading, but mostly because of the worries about depending on a service where someone could decide to pull the plug because of international politics, affecting users in the process.

Re: Statichost.eu – European static site hosting

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Post by esher » Mon, Sep 07, 2026, 7:09 AM UTC

Congrats on the launch. I added this to: https://www.findhost.app/statichost/

Re: Statichost.eu – European static site hosting

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Post by eviks » Mon, Sep 07, 2026, 7:35 AM UTC

0xbadcafebee wrote: post #223

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?

If motor oil for your car costs 20€, what justifies spending 40€ to have a shop change the oil for you?

Bad analogy, a shop can't write software to cheaply automate oil changes

Re: Statichost.eu – European static site hosting

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Post by selfhoster1312 » Mon, Sep 07, 2026, 9:33 AM UTC

jeremyjh wrote: post #251

selfhoster1312 wrote: post #231

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Thanks for the explanation. It's more detailed than what's on the homepage. > it could probably support about 10x the volume Codeberg has currently with good performance I'm very curious about this statement since it seems to also be based on forgejo, and hosted by Hetzner. Maybe there's some forms of clever caching involved? That could explain why the monthly expenditures seem to be moving around so much, which is u…

> Maybe there's some forms of clever caching involved? That could explain why the monthly expenditures seem to be moving around so much, which is unusual. Do you have a link about it? Mostly it is just better/newer hardware for the database servers - both CPU & NVME storage. But also more hosts, that are not sharing system resources, and have sub-ms latency between each other. Yes, costs change as hardware is added.…

Thanks, that's a very good article! I don't understand why it's not set front and center on the codefloe homepage.

Re: Statichost.eu – European static site hosting

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Post by selfhoster1312 » Mon, Sep 07, 2026, 9:36 AM UTC

jasonvorhe wrote: post #234

selfhoster1312 wrote: post #230

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No, it was just against every value Codeberg ever stood for, and against the value humanity should stand for. There was no ambiguity ever about this. There is no moral ambiguity that if people develop military FLOSS on codeberg they will be banned, even though it's not in the ToS right now, because that's the right thing to do and the community will reach a consensus that we want to support human communities, not mil…

The rules say nothing about military AI and currently include selfhosted LLMs as well: > You must not share projects that mostly consist of code written by "generative AI"-tools (including services such as Claude, OpenAI Codex). Such projects having an unclear copyright status (see requirements § 2 (1) 1 and § 2 (1) 3) and furthermore have little safeguards to ensure that they do not include harmful code (c.f. § 2 (1…

I'm fine with ambiguous rules. A non-profit is not a legislative body, though to be fair even actual laws are usually ambiguous and contradictory and that's why we have lawyers and judges and such.

Ambiguous rules with clear objectives is what gives a non-profit the power to be flexible in the way to accomplish common goals. It's based on human trust and is fine by me and others. If you ever were part of a non-profit, you know human trust is an essential component.