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European static site hosting: what does statichost.eu offer in 2026?

Published 2026-09-07 · Researched and price-checked on official sources

European static site hosting has a fresh, fully documented option worth pricing out: statichost.eu, a Stockholm-based, bootstrapped provider whose Hobby plan is genuinely free (1 site, 10 GB of bandwidth, 100 build minutes) and whose paid plans start at 9 euros per month. Prices verified on the official pricing page on September 7, 2026.

Key facts

What matters

Pricing verified September 7, 2026 on statichost.eu/pricing: Hobby free (1 site, 10 GB bandwidth, 100 build minutes), Starter 9 euros per month (unlimited sites, 500 GB), Professional 49 euros per month (1 TB, Performance CDN, immediate builds, priority email support).
The Hobby tier is a real free plan, not a trial: the official FAQ states there is no trial period and no credit card is required, and custom domains with automatic HTTPS are included even on the free tier.
The differentiator is residency: statichost.eu says every layer, servers, CDN, DNS and tooling, runs on European providers, with no AWS, no Cloudflare and no US cloud dependency anywhere in its stack.
Real-world proof of the pitch: FreeSewing, whose site hit 8.3 TB of bandwidth in one month after viral social posts while on Netlify, moved to statichost.eu; the company's December 19, 2025 case study describes custom 16 GB-memory builds.
Honest catches: free bandwidth stops at 10 GB while Cloudflare Pages publishes no bandwidth cap on its limits page, overage billing starts at 1 euro per 10 GB on paid tiers, and a phishing wave on shared statichost.eu subdomains triggered a whole-domain Google Safe Browsing block in October 2025.
What the free tier is not: one site and 10 GB of bandwidth is roughly a tenth of Vercel Hobby's 100 GB Fast Data Transfer allowance, so the EU-only stack is the reason to pay, not the bandwidth.
All 10 GB and 1 euro figures were read from the statichost.eu pricing page, Cloudflare Pages limits documentation, and Vercel limits documentation on September 7, 2026.

European static site hosting: what is statichost.eu?

statichost.eu is a static site hosting service run by a bootstrapped company operating from Stockholm, Sweden, whose founder Eric Selin publishes the company's engineering blog and incident reports. Its positioning is narrow and specific: a 100 percent European stack, meaning servers, CDN, DNS and build tooling all run on European providers, with no AWS, no Cloudflare and no other US cloud dependency, per the company's own FAQ.

The service first appeared on Hacker News in February 2024 as a privacy-first static host, and it returned to the front page on September 4, 2026 with 500 upvotes and 244 comments. That discussion is the news hook for this review, but the durable buyer question underneath it is older: which static host keeps your site's traffic, builds and data inside the EU?

Functionally, statichost.eu behaves like the static-hosting platforms you already know:

Deploys from any git provider: repositories are pulled with standard git clone, with SSH and authenticated HTTPS for private repositories.
Presets for the common static site generators, including Next.js, Astro, Hugo, Eleventy, SvelteKit and plain HTML, with any Docker container image available for builds that need custom tooling.
Custom domains with automatic HTTPS on every plan, including the free one.
Deployment webhooks, instant rollbacks, API access and password-protected sites on all plans.

statichost.eu pricing and plans, verified September 7, 2026

All figures below were read from the official pricing page on September 7, 2026. Prices are in euros and paid plans bill bandwidth and build overages per use rather than cutting sites off.

How the statichost.eu free tier compares with Cloudflare Pages and Vercel

Before paying anything, a buyer should line statichost.eu up against the free tiers of the platforms it positions against. The documented numbers, all read on September 7, 2026:

Cloudflare Pages: its limits documentation lists the Cloudflare Free plan at 500 builds per month with one build at a time, 20,000 files per site and a 25 MiB per-file cap. The limits page publishes no bandwidth cap.
Vercel: its limits documentation gives the entry Hobby plan 100 GB of Fast Data Transfer per month in the usage summary, with 1 TB on Pro.
statichost.eu Hobby: 1 site, 10 GB of bandwidth, 100 build minutes.

The free tier is therefore roughly a tenth of Vercel Hobby's data allowance and far tighter than Cloudflare Pages, which does not meter bandwidth on its published limits. What the US platforms cannot sell is the residency guarantee: statichost.eu states that every layer of its stack runs on European providers with no US cloud dependencies, while Cloudflare Inc. is headquartered at 101 Townsend Street, San Francisco, per its own privacy policy. For an EU organization that must keep site processing with an EU vendor, that difference is the entire buying decision.

The most useful real-world data point is an escape story from a named open-source project. FreeSewing, the garment-construction library whose flagship site FreeSewing.eu serves hundreds of thousands of users, hosted on Netlify until viral Instagram and TikTok posts pushed one month's bandwidth to 8.3 TB, about eight times its typical usage. Maintainer Joost De Cock, quoted in statichost.eu's December 19, 2025 case study, says that meant enterprise-level pricing that did not fit the project, plus out-of-memory failures on shared build infrastructure. After a brief self-hosted stopgap, FreeSewing moved to statichost.eu, where builds run with 16 GB of memory and build caching cut 7 to 8 minutes off each build.

Who should use statichost.eu

This is a niche host with a clear center of gravity. Good fits include:

EU-based businesses and agencies whose clients require an EU vendor and a data processing agreement for site hosting, not US terms of service.
Static-site portfolios and marketing sites in the low-to-mid traffic range: the free tier covers one small site, and Starter at 9 euros a month covers unlimited sites with 500 GB of bandwidth.
Developers who deploy from any git provider, including private repositories, and want staging environments, instant rollbacks and API access without per-seat fees below the Professional tier.
Privacy-motivated buyers who prefer a small independent EU-owned provider over a US platform: the company says it is bootstrapped with funding for years and no investor pressure to pivot, shut down the free tier or sell.

Organizations that outgrow the public tiers are pointed to sales: the pricing page lists 99.99 percent SLA, serverless functions, high-performance concurrent builds, single sign-on and phone support as enterprise-negotiated features, which is how the FreeSewing workload with its custom 16 GB builds is served.

Who should skip statichost.eu

High-bandwidth sites. The largest public plan includes 1 TB a month and then bills 1 euro per 10 GB, or roughly 100 euros per extra terabyte. FreeSewing's 8.3 TB viral month would be ruinous on published pricing; that workload runs on a custom arrangement, not a listed tier. Cloudflare Pages publishes no bandwidth cap and Vercel Hobby includes 100 GB of Fast Data Transfer.
Teams that need serverless functions or a published SLA: both are contact-sales features on this platform.
Buyers who weight provider track record and scale. statichost.eu has operated since at least 2024 and its founder publishes candid incident reports, but it is a small bootstrapped operation, and the longevity claim, funding for years to come, appears only in the company's own FAQ.
Anyone who dislikes automatic overage billing: both paid tiers meter extra bandwidth and build minutes rather than cutting traffic off, and spending limits exist but require contacting support to set up.

Honest catches: shared subdomains and the October 2025 Safe Browsing block

The biggest operational risk is structural, not technical. Every account gets a SITE-NAME.statichost.eu subdomain, and a shared domain under a free tier is a magnet for abuse. Founder Eric Selin's incident report, published October 10, 2025, describes what happened when that abuse arrived: a weekend influx of phishing sites created on statichost.eu subdomains led Google Safe Browsing to flag the platform, and Google blocked all of statichost.eu, in Selin's words, for over five billion devices for several hours. In some cases even custom domains hosted on the platform were affected, and the site disappeared from Google search results during the block.

The report reads as a genuinely honest post-mortem, and Selin's own conclusion is that the flag was a wide-net response to real phishing content. For a buyer, the lesson is that platform-level reputation risk exists on any host that hands out shared subdomains freely: a wave of abusive signups can take down innocent tenants' sites with them. statichost.eu's mitigation is custom domains, which are free on every plan including Hobby, and its pricing page FAQ notes that spending limits can be set up on request.

The remaining caveats are simpler: the free tier's 10 GB cap is real and enforced by overage or suspension rather than by unlimited goodwill, the optional worldwide CDN appears on Starter and above, and Performance CDN, immediate builds and priority email support are Professional-only features.

At a glance

Plan feature	Hobby (free)	Starter (9 euros/month)	Professional (49 euros/month)
Sites included	1	Unlimited	Unlimited
Bandwidth	10 GB	500 GB, then 1 euro per 10 GB	1 TB, then 1 euro per 10 GB
Build minutes	100	5,000, then 1 euro per 100 min	5,000, then 1 euro per 100 min
Build scheduling	Queue system	Queue system	Immediate start
CDN	Europe-wide	Europe-wide + optional worldwide	Europe-wide + Performance CDN
Staging environments	Not included	Via separate site	Via separate site
Support	Standard	Standard	Priority email
Team seats	Not included	Not included	5 seats, then 19 euros per seat
Custom domains + automatic HTTPS	Yes	Yes	Yes

statichost.eu plans and limits, verified on the official pricing page September 7, 2026

FAQ

Is statichost.eu free or just a trial?

Free, per the official FAQ: the Hobby plan has no trial period and no credit card requirement, and it includes one site, 10 GB of bandwidth, 100 build minutes and custom domains with automatic HTTPS. The free tier is a lead-in to paid plans, not a metered demo.

Which git providers and site generators work with statichost.eu?

Any git provider: repositories are pulled with standard git clone, with SSH and authenticated HTTPS for private repositories. Presets cover Next.js, Astro, Hugo, Eleventy, SvelteKit and plain HTML, and any Docker container image can be used for builds that need custom tooling.

Where does statichost.eu store data, and is it GDPR compliant?

statichost.eu operates from Stockholm, Sweden, and states in its FAQ that every layer, servers, CDN, DNS and tooling, runs on European providers, with no AWS, no Cloudflare and no US cloud dependency. The site publishes a data processing agreement. Whether that setup satisfies your own GDPR obligations is a judgment for your own analysis.