This page introduces our static web hosting service, which may require some technical knowledge to design.
If you’re not comfortable with website development, we recommend that you use our WordPress-based web hosting service instead, using the button below.
Static websites: the choice of sobriety
For experts who don’t feel fulfilled by WordPress, we offer to host your static site, built using only HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
You’ll have access to storage space on a bucket S3 hosted by us, the modern equivalent of FTP access.
You don’t have to write HTML by hand to create a static site! Some excellent tools work very well for this purpose, and connect effortlessly to the S3 storage space to automatically send your modifications.
Publii
Publii is an easy-to-use website creation tool with a few default themes. It installs like an application on your computer and sends any changes you make directly to the website.
Publii supports S3 bucket configuration as a storage provider.
Hugo
Highly versatile and popular, Hugo lets you design static web sites with numerous customization options at your disposal.
You can configure Hugo with an S3 bucket from its configuration file.
From command line
With the free and open-source awscli tool available on Debian and other Linux distributions, but also on Windows and MacOS, you can synchronize your website with the local version you have in one command.
In this way, you can use any static site generator: as long as it produces the desired website in a folder, it’s compatible with this method of sending files.
"À la carte" service
This service is offered on an annual subscription basis. By subscribing, you accept without reservation our terms of use, as well as our special conditions for “à la carte” services.
You can deploy your website on your own domain name, or we can provide you with a sub-domain on myproject.sites.lacontrevoie.fr.
| Disk storage quota | Annual indicative price ? |
|---|---|
| 5GB | 60 € |
| 10GB | 96 € |
| 20GB | 120 € |
| 50GB | 200 € |
Those rates cumulates with the annual membership.
Hosting with Garage
This service is powered by the open-source software Garage, developed by the association DeuxFleurs, which enables us to provide object storage based on the S3 protocol, and to duplicate this storage in real time on several servers.
This protocol enables files to be managed solely via HTTP, considerably simplifying the administration of hosted sites.
Frequently asked questions
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See our answer on the service main page.
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We’ve designed a system so that static sites can host contact forms; find instructions here.
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Yes, within limits: you’re free to integrate iframes into your site, or use JavaScript to retrieve data from a remote platform and display it on your page, but you can’t integrate any server-side logic: no PHP, no server-executable instructions.
This service only provides a web server.
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We tolerate the use of bucket S3 for purposes other than web hosting, with one condition: you must have full control over its content and must not allow anyone outside your organization to upload files to it.
We reserve the right to penalize abuse.
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In practical terms: we give you an endpoint, a bucket identifier and a secret key, and you configure your installation on your own.
This service also exists elsewhere…
La Contre-Voie isn’t the only one to offer this kind of service, and we invite you to check if the grass isn’t greener with other ethical hosts!
Our association receives no compensation by suggesting these third-party actors that we choose at our discretion. Furthermore, we cannot commit ourselves to the quality of their services.
La Contre-Voie, for digital solidarity
With La Contre-Voie, we offer solidarity rates on specialized digital services, especially for small structures that don’t have a sufficient budget to finance them at their fair value.
By subscribing to our “à la carte” services, you’ll be helping us to make this support system sustainable, and enabling smaller organizations to get off the “all-Google” bandwagon.
If you also think that another digital ecosystem is possible, please support us!