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The original post is talking about static sites: https://sitejs.org/

And mentions a VPS:

Sync and deploy to your own VPS.

I shouldn't have brought up LAMP / PHP, because that confuses the issue.

The point is that you should not use a VPS to serve static content! You will not do as good a job as maintaining the OS and web server as a professional. Just use shared hosting!

You can also use Github Pages or whatnot, but that goes against the philosophy of centralized cloud providers.

Commodity shared hosting is very portable between providers, because it's just a Linux box, without "cloud" stuff. That's all you need for static pages. Use rsync or git.

This page looks really ugly but it will give you a sense of how many independent providers there are: https://www.webhostingtalk.com/forumdisplay.php?f=4



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