Statichost.eu – European static site hosting

(statichost.eu)

123 points | by p4bl0 2 hours ago

19 comments

  • FabCH 15 minutes ago
    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.

    ?!

  • pkal 2 hours ago
    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.
  • petcat 1 hour ago
    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...

    • simonjgreen 57 minutes ago
      Nope, Airbus are still safely headquartered in Netherlands.
    • Hamuko 48 minutes ago
      "Just" and "Published April 30, 2025" seem a bit contradictory.
  • monneyboi 4 minutes ago
    It sucks that we got to "European" being used as a main selling point.
  • archonis 34 minutes ago
    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?

  • thih9 1 hour ago
    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.
    • ferngodfather 46 minutes ago
      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.

      • Avamander 37 minutes ago
        I've had a few complaints, few auto-detections, managed to clear it all up quite easily thankfully.

        However their IPv6 /128 allocation is horrendous. But I don't know anyone who does it all actually better.

  • Muromec 12 minutes ago
    My hosting is rv2 in my meterkast from by cf which costs 0 eurohryvnias.
  • squarefoot 1 hour ago
    How does it compare to neocities.org, which is sadly not EU?
    • kyledrake 29 minutes ago
      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 than France, which is attempting to do the same thing?

  • jonplackett 22 minutes ago
    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.

  • amelius 1 hour ago
    Looked cool at first, but that FreeSewing logo scared me away.
    • simonjgreen 1 hour ago
      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.
  • palata 1 hour ago
    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!

  • sparkling 1 hour ago
    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).
    • Avamander 1 hour ago
      You can also get a fully-featured shared web hosting package plus email for that price. 9€/mo is wack.
    • ferngodfather 46 minutes ago
      You should see the pricing of Azure web apps lol
  • sajithdilshan 53 minutes ago
    Doesn’t say anything about how much of storage is offered for any plan.
  • tiffanyh 1 hour ago
    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.

  • idorube 1 hour ago
    hold on there, nobody is mentioning AI here? :-D
    • nosioptar 50 minutes ago
      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.

  • s_dev 1 hour ago
  • Aldipower 1 hour ago
    No /cgi-bin/ directory? I am disappointed. ;-) Greetz to Sweden!
    • 0xbadcafebee 46 minutes ago
      I would love a static hoster with nothing but CGI and versioned snapshots
  • chrisjj 1 hour ago
    > 100 build minutes

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

    • rrr_oh_man 1 hour ago
      A static site could be built from source on the server
    • Hamuko 1 hour ago
      Many static sites are made using a static site generator, which turns input files into a static site in a build phase.
  • a3w 1 hour ago
    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?

    • bartekpacia 54 minutes ago
      It’s obvious and implied that “European” here means “EU”, especially when talking about values.

      Low effort comment.