45 replies

1. Mike Aparicio 3 min later

   @zachleat Still using Netlify if only because I don’t want to move dozens of sites to another host. I wish there was an alternative I could get excited about.

   1. Zach Leatherman 4 min later

      @peruvianidol there is definitely room for another player to hop in!

2. Chris Coleman 4 min later

   @zachleat I’ve been on Netlify so long (my user number is 5,000-ish), and my needs are so simple, I never really investigated much else after I started using it. My work is also all on Netlify, so it’s convenient.

3. Democracy Dies in Dumbass 6 min later

   @zachleat a Dell poweredge in my basement. Fuck the cloud.

4. Andrew Douglass 9 min later

   @zachleat GitHub Pages is where my personal site is currently.

   Digital Ocean is where I prefer to put stuff that needs a server exposed to the general public.

   My home servers are where I test stuff and run small apps I build for myself because I’ll be damned if I’m going to pay hosting fees for those.

5. ReduxFlakes 10 min later

   @zachleat currently using Neocities, and for simpler projects, GitHub Pages.

6. cassiozen 14 min later

   @zachleat A cheap VPS with Cloudflare free plan on top.

7. Private reply 15 min later
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9. arestelle 18 min later

   @zachleat actively avoiding the more startup-y or big tech places so I'm using uberspace

10. Kathleen Fitzpatrick 19 min later

    @zachleat Reclaim Hosting. (It’s CPanel shared hosting but I mostly ignore that and push _site to my file space.)

11. Bill Mill 28 min later

    @zachleat Digital Ocean

12. IAG 31 min later

    @zachleat codeberg.page

13. genehack 43 min later

    @zachleat S3 bucket configured to serve HTML

14. Linh Pham 47 min later

    @zachleat Most of my sites are hosted on cloud VPS instances (either NGINX for static sites or Flask/FastAPI web applications, or Apache+PHP for WordPress). A few are hosted through GitHub Pages, but I've been working on migrating off of that.

    I do use CloudFlare for WAF and public SSL cert for web apps. I have audio clips hosted in S3 (served through CloudFront) for one of my sites.

15. Axel Rauschmayer 1 hr later

    @zachleat Render

16. Bitten Mitten 🧛‍♀️ 1 hr later

    @zachleat Hostinger

17. Dan Ryan 1 hr later

    @zachleat S3 for me

18. Thomas Randolph 1 hr later

    @zachleat

    https://social.rdl.ph/@rockerest/112741771347954820

    However, for API/backend, I'm primarily self-hosted (RPi racks) or CF when I need global distribution and uptime guarantees.

19. shom 🐧📷🤿🏔️🪚✊🏽 2 hr later

    @zachleat Racknerd for VPS and sr.ht pages for static site ci/cd and hosting.

20. .. 2 hr later

    @zachleat Coolify

21. Joshua Hamilton 2 hr later

    @zachleat Cloudways is amazing, in my experience. I heartily recommend them for a great balance of power-user features obfuscated behind a friendly UI

    https://www.cloudways.com/en/

    1. Alan 1 day later

       @JoshuaHamilton @zachleat ooh! I've been looking for anyone that's hosted eleventy on Cloudways, I only have experience with places like netlify and vercel (although have used CW for WP hosting before).

       Is it fairly easy to set up/automate pushes, that kind of thing? I'm not a big server guy but am happy to figure things out, and it might be a good option for a specific case I have.

22. Erick 2 hr later

    @zachleat Historically I used Surge.sh, Netlify, and GitHub Pages but wasn't happy with the performance and limitations of any of those, so I went back to having server code. I host on Fly.io and deploys are as easy as deploying to Netlify.

23. DSri Seah (they/them) 2 hr later

    @zachleat Opalstack, the spiritual successor to WebFaction

24. Private reply 3 hr later
25. Kfir Breger 3 hr later

    @zachleat Digital Ocean

26. James A Rosen 3 hr later

    @zachleat Vercel, but that project needs to do all its processing in the EU, so we either have to abandon the edge runtime or switch to something like Fly that can force processing in specific datacenters.

    Fly, then Netlify, then Vercel for my personal site. All decent; none really stands out.

27. Eric Eggert 3 hr later

    @zachleat
    @hallo

28. meduz' 3 hr later

    @zachleat Digital Ocean. Planning to move to Hetzner at some point.

29. julientaq 4 hr later

    @zachleat gitlab pages.

30. Tim Severien 4 hr later

    @zachleat Netlify for pet projects, Vercel at work

31. Chris M. 5 hr later

    @zachleat I’m using Azure Static Web Apps now, as I was running out of Netlify build minutes

32. Arnaud Gomes 5 hr later

    @zachleat My own.
33. Snugug 5 hr later

    @zachleat GH Pages and Firebase for me.

34. Joe Lanman 5 hr later

    @zachleat Railway

35. Jan Lehnardt 6 hr later

    @zachleat haproxy, nginx & apache httpd

36. Private reply 6 hr later
37. Paul L 11 hr later

    @zachleat I use infomaniak.ch. Straight, simple, effective… but you can also funky things if needed (ssh is my biggest gun).
    All the hosters you proposed need proprietary APIs to upload. Not for me!

38. Freerk 14 hr later

    @zachleat Own infra for anything serious. GitHub pages for simple static docs etc.

    Also absolutely not Vercel, they don't even support IPv6.

39. Marco Rogers 14 hr later

    @zachleat I use fly.io a lot these days.

    1. ahoyboyhoy 16 hr later

       @polotek @zachleat yep, fly is nice. Have all my fastify apps running there

40. Timon 14 hr later

    @zachleat Used to equally host on both Netlify and Vercel but now transitioning to a VPS with coolify. For the VPS I‘ll likely go with Ionos because they‘re running on renewables and let me choose the location of the server.

41. Moritz G. 17 hr later

    @zachleat uberspace. Very cool people from Germany, providing friendly hosting for nerds.

42. Daniel Opitz 20 hr later

    @zachleat uberspace