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Looks like netlify requires a github account? I have an issue with that, as I'm against monopolies. As far as small private web sites are concerned, there are a lot of totally free options, and Hetzner offers web sites for 2 euro a month - 10GB space and unlimited traffic included, and it's a very solid company.

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If you're against a monopoly Netlify is actually a good option for static hosting, since it's a competitor to GitHub Pages. They also support Gitlab and Bitbucket. I'd assume the reason they don't integrate with arbitrary git repositories is that a lot of their automation features rely on workflow messages from the repository hosts beyond what a normal Git server would provide.

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