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Okay, I am very reticent to pull off this particular band-aid but let's say hypothetically I wanted to replace with another managed host of some kind, mostly for low-traffic static asset/site hosting with HTTPS, and maybe periodically running a server or something for very cheap, maybe bulk data archiving (glacier), any suggestions for companies that don't suck or are at least less bad than at comparable cost?

Eliot Lash

Thanks everyone who responded to my question about finding an alternative. I've investigated everyone's suggestions and crunched the numbers. R2 looks to be the cheapest option (cheaper than S3 even) but I'm uncomfortable with them hosting hate speech and terror organizations.

/ is the second cheapest and they seem to be on the up-and-up so I am currently evaluating them. Thanks @titociuro for the suggestion, the onboarding process has been smooth so far!

@Eliot_L @titociuro Glad to hear that fly.io apparently passed your social screen because that seems to be the most recommended one I hear about (most of my knowledge not first hand though)

@soaproot @titociuro Yeah, I think they are pretty new and small so I couldn't find a ton of info about them but I did see their "acceptable usage policy": fly.io/legal/acceptable-use-po

It's not exhaustive but explicitly calls out cryptomining and violent or harassing content as being prohibited. So it seemed good enough to me for now. It certainly seems better than Cloudflare:
fastcompany.com/90312063/how-c

FlyFly.io Acceptable Use PolicyDocumentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.

@soaproot @titociuro I have to say the onboarding so far has been pretty smooth although I think you are required to use Docker to deploy apps to their cloud. You just install their CLI and you can either import an existing GitHub repo or deploy from a local folder with a few commands. I haven't played around with the server hosting piece that much though, I have been focusing on getting my S3 buckets mirrored to Tigris. That's also been pretty easy, with a few issues but no blockers.