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Ovh and hetzer are the big ones, but scaleway is worth checking out, as well as contabo
Thanks. Hetzer seems like its got a good deal (1.76 euro / month max for the lowest tier which should be way more than enough for what I want to do) but when I looked at the scaleway price page I was greeted with several sections like bare metal and compute. Which one should I be looking for to just host a simple webpage? Also, having done a little more research into hosting, I guess I will be going with nginx and gunicorn (correct me please if this is overkill) so I guess having ssh access to the server is necessary. I've got linux experience so thats not a learning curve for me at all.
Edit: Also for hetzer, looking at their most basic tier in more detail, they have this following feature listed:
Symantec Basic SSL Certificate, duration 1 year
You can equip yourself with a free basic SSL certificate simply by going to the "SSL Manager" menu tab in your account on the konsoleH user interface.
The offer only stands if Symantec can supply a free certificate for the domain.
Even though I'm not actually reading any sensitive user data or storing anything, I think having https will inspire confidence and is just generally better to have than not, so how can I make sure that my domain is elligible for the free certificate?
Everyone should give you a free cert these days - if they dont its easy to get a free one from letsencrypt, buypass, zerossl (probably more). There's no excuse not to use https really, there's more to it than "i have nothing to hide" - this is old but still good: https://www.troyhunt.com/heres-why-your-static-website-needs-https/
~~Are you running something dynamic (ie with software generating the html)? If its just some html/css/js etc. you could run a static website for free, with everything you need and some quite nice cms-like functionality, on github pages. A lot of other places will host small static sites for free too - you get the bonus of skipping a lot of vulnerabilities.~~ edit - saw you updated the question, this wont work for flask :)
I maintain several Hetzner VPS (virtual cloud servers). Basic Ubuntu servers with whatever service stack I need. You can easily protect your virtual hardware with the free Hetzner firewall from the cloud admin panel - which will make sure to only let in traffic through the ports you define.
Really competitive pricing and work well. Can not complain.
You don't need to pay for your certificate. Nowadays Letsencrypt is almost the standard for web certificates, as they are trusted and readily available for free. Really widespread all over the internet.
For little fun projects I really like uberspace.de. it's a shared hosting platform, basically you get a user account on one of their Linux servers where you can login and do whatever you want. Price is 10โฌ/month by default but you can go down to 5โฌ if you're low on cash. They let you pick your own price, just try to be fair. You can't register domains directly from them but your account comes with a yourname.uber.space subdomain and setting up domains you bought somewhere else is super easy too, they also take care of SSL certificates automatically. They also have a lot of documentation about how to run practically any service you'd want there. Here's the page for flask for example: https://lab.uberspace.de/guide_flask/
EDIT: German company run by some nerds that are really helpful if you need something.
What about a classic:
Ok, this is super interesting and a bit of a weird coincidence, because on the page you linked it mentions that they are also a community of the blind and it is really important to me to have my page be accessible to visually impaired people, and I already made some steps into making it screen-reader compatible. I still need feedback from them though because not being blind myself I cant be sure if what I used to test the screen-reading is actually what the blind community uses, nor if it would actually be useful for them!
Do they offer hosting and ssh access? If so, how can I go about setting all that up?
Edit: Looking at their donations page it seems that they may be partly linked to the USA which I want to avoid:
HOW DO I DONATE?
You can send cash (USD, YEN or EUR), cheque or a money order to:
SDF Public Access UNIX System
PO Box 17355
Seattle WA 98127
Even though their server is in Germany if they have any relation to the USA its a shame.
The SDFEU is in so far connected to the US as the original SDF (sdf.org) started as a BBS running on a single computer in the bedroom of a guy in the US. The other SDF's (EU and China) are completely separate entities.
If you still want to take a look, simply telnet or ssh into sdfeu.org, create a guest account and look at the documentation. The process may seem a bit weird, but SDF is not a typical hosting provider... its a bit more of a cult.