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Blogger migrates static sites from Codeberg Pages to an OpenBSD VPS after persistent load-time issues
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A personal blogger documents moving from Codeberg Pages to a self-managed OpenBSD VPS after experiencing 10-15 second load times on small static pages.
It illustrates the practical tradeoffs between free forge-based static hosting and a cheap VPS, including performance ceilings on non-profit hosting and the operational overhead of running your own OpenBSD web server. The post also surfaces concrete friction points in provisioning from a European provider like netcup.
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Codeberg Pages exhibited 10-15 second load times for pages under a few hundred kilobytes, prompting the migration.
The author chose netcup's VPS Pico G11s at roughly 2€ per month with 30GB storage and an unmetered 100Mbps connection.
The post covers OpenBSD 8.0-beta, firewall configuration, TLS certificates, MIME handling pitfalls, and unexpected bureaucratic hurdles with the provider.
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