Statichost.eu – European static site hosting

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.

Guys. Your top menu doesn’t even fit on mobile properly.

The spacing of every element on the site is different and inconsistent.

Everything about this site looks cheap and unconsidered.

Design is important and builds (or loses) trust.

It would take you at most an hour to make this site actually look nice.

If you'd like an EU hosted Git Forge to back it, Codefloe offers a free built-in integration with no restriction on personal or private repositories.

https://docs.codefloe.com/pages/

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 person, so increased outage risks

- No support for MFA

- The upload process unconditionally uploads every file rather than an rsync-like sync of only the changed files, which is a pain for my large sites that only change incrementally

- Bot scraper protection is not included (they'll do it for an additional fee)

- Bundles together site builds and hosting, but I only want hosting

I’m a happy OVH user, their free static hosting (part of their paid domain service) is enough for my needs. I’ve been using that platform for more than 10 years now. At the same time I like that there are more alternatives.

Looks interesting and serves a real need. However, pricing tiers seem a bit steep, especially for folks who don't need the build step to happen on the host.

Also, at least according to the docs, ssh cert based authentication and password based authentication, but no support for public key based authentication?

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

I like it. But not 100% EU. Status page sends data to Google, Doubleclick, etc (1)

"In Brief: statichost.eu does not collect or share any personal information or data. " (2)

Every page contains a hidden 1px pixel img that collects 15+ parameters: https://queue.simpleanalyticscdn.com/simple.gif?version=cdn_......

1. https://status.statichost.eu

2. https://www.statichost.eu/privacy/

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

Looked cool at first, but that FreeSewing logo scared me away.

Does it automatically generate a TLS certificate? I didn't find documentation about that, just that you can setup your own domain.

Seems really cool!

OT: is Cloudflare not offering Pages anymore?

I logged into CF dashboard the other day and was super confused because it appears to be replaced by Workers.

The pricing is bananas. Why on earth is the bandwidth metered?

An EU tiny VPS on Scaleway with unlimited bandwidth costs 5€. This thing costs 9€. With limited bandwidth.

?!

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

wtf is a build minute and why is it metered

The 9€/mo price point seems weird, considering its "just" static hosting and i can get a decently sized VPS for that money (yes, also from a EU host).

My hosting is rv2 in my meterkast from by cf which costs 0 eurohryvnias.

> Not just servers in Europe. A European company, European infrastructure, and European values

Needs to also run on European CPUs such as SiPearl Rhea1 :)

Obligatory as always: https://european-alternatives.eu/categories

hold on there, nobody is mentioning AI here? :-D

Europe enters the static file hosting space.

Meanwhile, Europe's most promising aerospace company just left for USA.

https://www.heartaerospace.com/newsroom/heart-aerospace-relo...

Doesn’t say anything about how much of storage is offered for any plan.

...European values, and requires eu tax number, eu payment card only, eu sanctions, eu censorship, eu prices(high), and residence permit of course.

Immediately blocked for half year until they think if you can have that site.

Before any other consideration, I love love LOVE the record-short terms.

I'll bookmark it just for that.

No /cgi-bin/ directory? I am disappointed. ;-) Greetz to Sweden!

> 100 build minutes

Er, what? A static site has no build on server.

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Swedish company, nice.

But "European values" seems to be a non-statement.

Doesn't European also possibly mean St. Petersburg, Malta, Cyprus, Istanbul, Greenland, or Switzerland? I.e. being not the same as EU hosting?