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Where can one host sites like these?I think anywhere where one can get shell access?

Just create them locally on your computer and use rsync or ftp to send them to your web host.

With static HTML, you don't need any databases and it doesn't matter what type of server or operating system your host is running.

But nanoc does not just output the static html, it gives just the files, with no side bars and all. I think the layout part is not there.

Realized my mistake here, sorry for the misinformation.