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Taffer :godot: 🇨🇦

For fans (?) of my Canadian Alternatives list: codeberg.org/Taffer/canadian-a

I'm probably going to migrate my website/email from Dreamhost to CanSpace; the previous front runner (whc.ca) seems to have ghosted me. They won't answer the question "Do you offer discounts if I pre-pay for multiple years." 🤷

Summary card of repository Taffer/canadian-alternatives
Codeberg.orgcanadian-alternativesA collection of Canadian alternatives to common Internet services in the spirit of the various Awesome lists.

@Taffer are there any services that provide static site hosting like github pages/vercel/netlify ?I need somewhere to host a portfolio website. I know of codeberg pages, but they said it needs a rework.

@kjv I’d say try it and see if it works for you; how hard can static pages be?

There’s WorkTree about.worktree.ca based in Quebec. They’re using software that might be a little more mature, but I think they’re just getting off the ground. I signed up but haven’t used it for anything yet.

about.worktree.caCanada's Git and DevOps Platform - WorkTree

@Taffer @kjv I was going to ask the same question. I moved all my personal repos from github to codeberg and their pages work fine for me. I was looking at WorkTree and they don't seem to have a pages thing. Maybe we can suggest it to them, or maybe it's already in the works.

(FWIW I like codeberg pages even more than github pages, it's as simple and straightforward as can be, no deploy automation it just hosts what's in your pages repo.)

@skylark13 @Taffer oooh nice! I'll give codeberg pages a go. I too like codeberg more than github, so I asked them about pages. They themselves said it is unstable/needs urgent fixing - don't know if they did, but they've been dealing with a lot of attacks lately, so it's understandable.

Haven't heard of worktree before, will try it out when they have it.

Thanks!!

Also, I found something on eu alternatives : european-alternatives.eu/produ

European Alternativesstatichost | European Alternativesstatichost is a hosting provider for static websites from Sweden.

@Taffer Yeah, I'm going to give codeberg pages a go. Them saying it needs fixing was why I didn't try before but let me see how it goes. Thanks!

@Taffer Do you know if CanSpace provides SSH access to their web hosting instance? I'm assuming those are good old shared hosting linux instances.

I have been thinking of moving off my current host for a long time now, but before I do, I know I definitely need SSH and Docker access otherwise its a deal breaker for now.

@ozeki they said the could provide ssh access easily if you asked for it, dunno if they do Docker though

Their sales email address answered my questions within a few hours. 👍

@Taffer I will look into it with them then, thank you!

@Taffer Haven't yet done the appropriate research on this, but does anyone know of a Canadian alternative to S3 right off the top of their heads?

@mykl easyBackup E3 is S3 compatible and prices seemed reasonable when I looked