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Comment by noirscape

6 days ago

> I want a stable platform that will host my small static website blog at a very low cost, with high stability and uptime, no questions asked.

Maybe try the neocities supporter plan[0]? They allow custom domains, offer decent bandwidth and put a lot of effort into open source and encouraging people to write their own sites from what I can tell.

It seems like a better option than dealing with the Great Amorphous Corporate Centralizing Mass that is Cloudflare.

[0]: https://neocities.org/supporter

That sounds neat, I haven't seen it, although I think someone else mentioned they were using neocities. Do they support random static sites?

  • It's their entire MO; their name indicates the idea is that they are also a successor to geocities. No backend support whatsoever, just HTML/CSS/JS and whatever other files you need to host a site (images).

    Their AUP isn't unreasonable: don't use them to host scams/spam people, don't abuse their services for an SEO farming operation, don't infringe on people's copyright, don't get their IPs blacklisted and don't use their services to harass or threaten people. All fairly standard as far as "we don't want to get sued/get in trouble" is concerned.

    There's also an API to upload files to, shouldn't be too difficult to use it to rig up an SSG deployment script for it, or alternatively you can use their web interface to upload the resulting files. (Although it is on the assumption that you shouldn't abuse it.)