What are my best options for hosting a static site on Australian servers?

Previously I was using a normal web hosting service but they don’t work very well with static site generators and are usually overpriced for what I want.

Ideally I’d like a service like Cloudflare pages or GitHub pages, etc., i.e. there is good integration with git as my site is generated using Hugo.

  • @RegalPotooEnglish
    1•9 days ago

    Depends why you want to be located in Australia

    • If you are worried about data sovereignty, I’m not aware of any services that are based in Australia but aren’t US or EU owned
    • If you are more concerned about latency/TTFB, CloudFlare has several POPs in Australia so pages should be just as fast as anywhere else
    • If you are willing to roll your own with AWS, you could set up a GitHub actions job to upload to an S3 bucket (which you can locate in ap-southeast) then serve it out of Cloudfront (AWSs edge cache service). Unless you are doing a ton of traffic it’d probably be within the free tier limit as well