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I see it like this : Once there were a lot of free tera byte image hosting services. And then after some market ups and downs, most of them either closed down,

I see it like this : Once there were a lot of free tera byte image hosting services. And then after some market ups and downs, most of them either closed down, asked for subscription fee or hugely restricted what can be done. Free static hosting services might not remain such for long. At the very least, they might introduce terms or condition you might not like. Then it will be harder for you to shift to another service, compared to switching your VPS server. Also I count my time spent on managing the servers as free. For me it's experimenting what else can be done, gaining experience and overall enjoyable time spent. That might not be true for everyone.

jtbayly 5y ago
> Then it will be harder for you to shift to another service, compared to switching your VPS server. No way. I can move a folder of files to anywhere quite confidently. Even a VPS. But I have no idea what I would do if I needed to move my VPS. I’d probably have to start over from scratch.
- tasuki 5y ago
  If your VPS was build by hand over a long period of time, sure it's hard to switch to another service. If your VPS setup is automated by Ansible or NixOS or something, it ceases to be hard.
  - jtbayly 5y ago
    Really? And how does Ansible get the data from my old VPS?
Tehchops 5y ago
Sites hosted on Netlify literally just depend on a github repo with a TOML configuration file at the root. For basic static sites, which I imagine fit the needs of the majority of personal hosting, it's incredibly trivial to point the same repo at a different static hosting platform.
- mro_name 5y ago
  > just depend on a github repo well, and: Netlify plus what that brings in.