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Ask HN: Best static site hosting that's not Netlify?

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TL;DR — I'm looking for static site hosting that's not Netlify or one of the big tech companies (ie. no Google, Amazon, etc.) where I can upload files and login without using OAuth and associating another account (ie. Email and password).

I'm looking for a new place to host a few static sites as Netlify's free tier has been a bit too flaky for me (I use a monitoring service to check that my sites are up every few minutes throughout the day and at least from where I am Netlify appears pretty spotty), so I'm looking for alternatives.

My only real requirements are the ability to upload files. Git support (note, "Git", not "GitHub" like Netlify has) would be a plus, or maybe rsync or SFTP, but this isn't a hard requirement. I'm okay paying a bit too, but I'm not looking for an inexpensive VPS that I have to manage myself. Finally, it would be nice to be able to get an IP from them that's only assigned to me. I've had trouble with my sites being blacklisted in the past, presumably because something else using the same IP on Netlify or other shared hosts I've used was serving spam.

Finally: nothing owned by one of the big tech companies. I'm looking for something smaller and independent that I can support and not use Google/Amazon/Microsoft/etc.

EDIT: another requirement is the ability to log in without associating an external account (ie. good ol' email and password, not just OAuth or what not).

https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/ fulfills most of your requirements, it seems.

SFTP access, file upload, very cheap pay-as-you-go (traffic spikes will hit the $0 floor and stop incurring charges), email/password login.

They do not provide a static IP but do attempt to cover the seemingly most-common case where clients request it: "The most common reason people request a static IP address is to point external DNS at a site hosted with us. As part of our hosting service, we provide our own special DNS records for each site that you can link to external DNS using the CNAME capability that work even better than static IPs. These records preserve full fault tolerance and load balancing."

I'll check it out; thanks! I'm slightly worried about their whole "libertarian Terms & Conditions of Service" as they put it. It sounds like this might just be an exuse to encourage hate speech and I'd hate for my sites to get lumped into the IP reputation (not that IP reputation makes sense, but it's a thing that corporate firewalls and the like do) of sites like that if they don't moderate anything that's not technically illegal in the US. Unsure if this is the case or not though, just reading through their terms.

EDIT: read up on this and it sounds like they definitely host and fight for doxing sites and crap which is technically legal, but still not okay. Even in business you should have some basic decency so I don't think I'll be using them.

In that case, I'd second the other recommendation of Neocities, which is what I use now.

Perhaps:

https://neocities.org/supporter (Paid) or https://surge.sh/

These look great, thanks! Neocities in particular has a pretty good overview of what you're getting on the homepage. Both seem to require their custom uploader, which is unfortunate, but it appears to just be posting to the API so I can use curl or what not in CI which will be nicer (I don't necessarily want to add a ton of extra dependencies to my build machine, not that it would be the end of the world). Anyways I'll check them both out, thanks again!

https://vercel.com/docs/build-step (formerly zeit) is in a similar space to netlify. They support custom domains, custom git repo (though it's a bit hidden in the settings), but I don't think dedicated IP address.

That looks really nice, sadly it doesn't meet a requirement I didn't realize I had until just now: ability to log in without associating another account (they want GitHub, Bitbucket, or GitLab, but I just want to use an email and password or what not. Thanks for the recommendation though, I'll keep an eye on this!

I've been happy with BunnyCDN. Email and password login (and 2FA), FTP and API upload (I'm using lftp to deploy my sites from CI), pay as you go (I think the minimum is $1/month) and easy SSL. No complaints so far, but my usage is pretty basic.

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