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Show HN: Statichost.eu – privacy-first static site hosting

by ericselin on 2/28/24, 6:36 PM with 4 comments

Excited to announce StaticHost.eu - a privacy-first static site hosting service! No logging whatsoever apart from usage metrics, and hosted on Hetzner who own and operate their own data centers.

Based on the git workflow where updates trigger a clone-build-deploy-publish. Other notable characteristics:

- Clones from any git repository, even a folder on an SSH box

- Can use any Docker image to perform the site generation (i.e. build)

The classic story of something I built for myself that eventually became a something more. Still not ready, but when is such a thing ever ready...

Feedback and questions extremely welcome! :)

  • by ValtteriL on 3/1/24, 7:38 PM

    Grattis for launching! The site looks nice and clear.

    While I like the privacy part and use static hosting myself, I don't think mixing them makes for good value proposition. Nor do I think those prices will alone make for a viable business you can quit your day job for.

    I might not be your target market though and you might have some other goal in mind :)

    Lycka till!

  • by pestaa on 2/28/24, 8:34 PM

    Nice, simple service! Well done shipping.

    How do you solve for high availability? I wish hetzner would have S3-compatible object storage. Static files off of a running server gives me this weird vibe - although I should know better! It was all fine before the cloud.

    It's a tough market, wish you luck!

  • by AndrianV on 2/29/24, 11:35 AM

    Why is better than for example https://static.app/ or netlify?