Do you mind sharing what (if anything) you're using to version that website? I'm wondering what folks use instead of git nowadays.

Wow, your mom is so cool!

Love your mom’s work. Wow.

Seriously, no WebDAV?

Why would i use codefloe and not a more reputable non-profit provider like codeberg/disroot/framagit?

It says it's community owned, but i only see one codefloe team member on the forums and a few people (like you). I didn't find any good community rules or pricing, any political statement about the mission, etc. The only thing i found deep in the comments is that it seems to be for people who don't want FLOSS? Also the pricing mentions mixing a non-profit and a for-profit for the best of both worlds, which as Mozilla has shown is a potentially tragic strategy.

To be clear, i'm in favor of more non-profit hosts. But from reading the site i'm not convinced this one is actually for-profit, what the community stands for, and whether i'm the target audience.

No? This company is based in Sweden, right?

That being said, the only reference to the EU is the domain itself - everything else says European, and the UK didn't move during Brexit.

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

I think you are picking on the product by sharing a (real) critique of the marketing website.

The product says "100% European static website hosting" it does not make any promise about the actual marketing website they have that will be privacy protected.

So yes, you are right they used in their marketing website maybe some trackers and even so based on the link you shared here they seem to use https://www.simpleanalytics.com/ which sounds okish than any other trackers and it might even be also EU hosted: "We're a three-person team based in the Netherlands, building privacy-first analytics for the web"

That pixel seems to just gather standard data one might want to optimise the site display. I think display port size or http/s choice is hardly personal data.

Yes such info can be used to track people, but only if you have the database and means to - which a single small provider certainly doesn't. So unless you think this data is being sold for profiling I don't think that their claim is false.

My issue with OVH is the support is God awful and half French. Someone made a complaint about my server and their default stance was to nuke me from orbit and ask questions later.

Oh and their "data centers" are just shipping containers that are prone to the occasional fire.

Much happier with Hetzner, even though it's more expensive.

It's the Geocities design philosophy. Worked stupendously for lingscars.

> Wait, so Europeans dont want to use github pages?

Yes

> And would rather pay 9 euros/month?

No

Wow, yeah. I need to start offering static hosting for like $.99 (although then micropayments become an issue...) As is, I host like 100 business' sites on my VPS and only recently surpassed 1% bandwidth.

For less than a cup of coffee yeah.

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 the pretty simple reason that we live here, and nobody in Europe has offered me citizenship yet (by all means!)

I've explored potentially operating out of other countries when crazy internet regulations come up but in practice, crazy internet regulations is currently, unfortunately, a bi-partisan, multi-country phenomenon, and I wouldn't bank on being "based in Europe" to solve this.

I also wouldn't assume that being based in Europe will prevent the US from enforcing a law on a platform either. US companies still have to adhere to European internet laws if they want to operate there. If we used cookies for anything except session login, we would need to do a cookie pop-up like most other sites do.

It might help me to understand the concern if I was given a specific internet law. If your concern is age check IDing for example, how are you more concerned about the US states than the entire country of France, which is attempting to do the same thing?

should come with a pack of cigarettes and a copy of SAS volumes 1-7

> 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 pricing at Netlify, Firebase Hosting, and Vercel, and it's competitive, but you should expect to pay more for a service run by a small vendor who doesn't have the economies of scale or VC money that the bigger competitors have.

[0] They're an abstraction on top of Bunny, who provides the actual CDN, statichost assumes responsibility for providing the CDN regardless of underlying infrastructure.

I checked yesterday because they were about to close my account and found Scaleway is a bit expensive.

Just checked again and found a DEV configuration for ~€6.55 and STARDUST for ~€0.43 which is interesting.

But it’s in the EU! Which is obviously extremely important for static hosting.

Yes, it does generate the certificate

Pages is essentially discontinued and replaced by workers.

Stuff like Astro comes with Workers support.

They also have https://www.cloudflare.com/drop/

The legacy option still exists but they don’t make it obvious.

Computer > Workers & Pages > Create Application > under “Make something new” container there’s a link “Continue to Pages”

From April 8, 2025:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/full-stack-development-on-cloudf...

It's under Compute → Workers & Pages because Cloudflare has a confusing UI.

You can also get a fully-featured shared web hosting package plus email for that price. 9€/mo is wack.

You should see the pricing of Azure web apps lol

Are you ok? I think you might be having a stroke.

Why is that worth mentioning?

That’s a shame, because FreeSewing is a fascinating and pretty awesome project! If you know someone in to the textile crafts, you may find this changes their world if they don’t already know of it.

Since you asked...

I wonder if they have some form of clanker protection. I'd hate to get hit by the filthy buggers and end up with a huge bill.

If they stated the storage limits explicitly, people would just go right up to the edge. Better to leave it undefined and assess compliance afterward.

That website is no longer worth pointing out. The person running it cannot be contacted by others so the offerings and details are frozen in time.

I would love a static hoster with nothing but CGI and versioned snapshots

A static site could be built from source on the server

Many static sites are made using a static site generator, which turns input files into a static site in a build phase.

Nope, Airbus are still safely headquartered in Netherlands.

"Just" and "Published April 30, 2025" seem a bit contradictory.

Greenland is not part of Europe. But they are part of "Rigsfællesskabet" (The Kingdom of Denmark). So part of Denmark but with a high degree of autonomy.

Regarding "European values", I think they are just Western values but with a twist away from the US version. In my layman view, that means: Europe values citizen privacy more, US values citizen freedoms more, Europe values environment more, US values businesses more.

Until recently I would have said Europe values diplomacy more, while US values military power more. But now I dont know about that.

It’s obvious and implied that “European” here means “EU”, especially when talking about values.

Low effort comment.