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Hostsmith publishes static sites and individual files - HTML folders, PDFs, images, or video - to a public HTTPS URL in seconds. EU data residency is offered as a paid option for agencies and consultancies whose clients require hosting to remain in the EU; EU-hosted sites are served from Germany.
The free tier requires an account but no credit card. Paid tiers add custom domains, password-protected pages, and the EU residency option. Hostsmith does not include a CMS, build pipeline, Git integration, or plugin marketplace - it is designed to take an existing file or folder live, not to author content. Programmatic deployments are supported through a REST API and a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for AI clients like Claude and Cursor.
The product is used by agencies and freelancers under data-residency requirements, designers and small studios sharing prototypes and client deliverables, consultants and educators selling or distributing PDFs and course materials with controlled access, and developers needing a low-friction publish target for static output and one-off landing pages.
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Hostsmith treats individual files (PDF, image, video) and static sites as the same primitive - both become a public HTTPS URL in seconds, both can sit on a custom domain with password or email-gated access, and both can be served from the EU on paid tiers. Most alternatives do one or the other: drag-and-drop file hosts skip API and SSO; static-site hosts require Git and a build pipeline; design-tool hosting platforms keep all data in the US below their enterprise tier. Hostsmith is the only tool combining artifact-first publishing, real access control, and EU data residency at a self-serve price point.
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Agencies and freelancers under data-residency requirements, designers and small studios sharing prototypes and client deliverables, consultants and educators selling or distributing PDFs and course materials with controlled access, and developers needing a low-friction publish target for static output and one-off landing pages.
We have been using Vercel to host some of our internally developed apps that help our team run our operations on Vercel and have found it to be a very developer friendly platform. With our apps built in Next JS it is a natural fit and the dev op pipelines can quickly and easily be configured. As these are internal apps used by our team they don't need to support huge traffic volumes so pricing has been affordable for us.
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What replaced the laptop, before we get to the schema: Health Auto Export now posts straight to a Vercel function on a daily schedule, a scheduled job pulls lifting history from Liftosaur, and both land in TimescaleDB on Tiger Cloud. No files, no iCloud, no Mac. A Next.js app reads it and tells me whether I hit protein, which is a separate post. - Source: dev.to / 22 days ago
Vercel Hobby is free for personal, non-commercial projects and is built around HTTP serverless functions and static frontends. Node.js is the primary runtime, and Vercel does a lot of Next.js-specific work for you automatically: caching pages that don't change often, running lightweight functions close to the user, resizing images, and running middleware on every request. Hobby includes 100 GB of bandwidth per... - Source: dev.to / about 2 months ago
Vercel is where JS-heavy Heroku apps land when the shape they really wanted was framework-native serverless, especially anything on Next.js. ISR caching, edge functions, image optimization, middleware, and the AI SDK all wire up automatically from the framework's build output, so the parts of the app Heroku was serving as HTTP handlers become serverless functions that don't pay for idle time. - Source: dev.to / about 2 months ago
What went wrong: The security commit added a Content-Security-Policy Header with connect-src 'self' https://*.public.blob.vercel-storage.com. The Vercel Blob SDK's client-side upload() makes a PUT to Https://vercel.com/api/blob. That domain wasn't in connect-src. The browser silently blocked the request. - Source: dev.to / 2 months ago
A host: A host is really just a computer that stays powered on and connected to the internet with a public address of its own. When a visitor types in the app's address, their browser sends a request across the internet to that machine, the machine runs the code, and it sends the finished page back. A laptop was quietly doing both jobs during the build, the server and the only visitor allowed in; a host is that... - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago
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Cloudflare Pages - Deploy blazing fast static sites and serverless functions.
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