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It isn’t just free. It’s effectively anonymous.

Most hosting (eg AWS) requires you to say who you are, provide a lot of ID. I think some don’t at first (eg Azure, Hetzner) but eventually you need to pay via a credit card, include your actual name etc.

With Cloudflare, you literally only need an email address. It continues to be free.

The second best is Hostinger, where you can pay with crypto.

Github pages is great too, but you don’t really get all the power to customize your own website.



> I think some don’t at first (eg Azure, Hetzner)

What, Hetzner requires sending the image of a passport or other photo ID just to open an account (as a U.S. customer), unless they relaxed that in the past few years. They’re among the worst, or just the worst since I don’t recall another provider doing that.


> or just the worst since I don’t recall another provider doing that.

They're a German company and thus bound to German telecommunications law.


Something special about German law here? I’ve used other European providers e.g. OVH and Scaleway (French) and none required photo ID.





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