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Ask HN: What's the lowest carbon impact way to build a web page in 2020?
1 points by dgerges 2085 days ago
We're a Tech Hub based in Rennes, France and rebuilding our Web presence, we would like to setup a good practice for building a presence with the lowest possible carbon footprints. What are some providers or techniques you could point us to ?
2 comments

Define "website".

The lowest carbon way is also probably the cheapest way. I dunno, maybe a static site on the cheapest s3 tier (with reduced redundancy) using cloudflare's free tier (workers, CDN, DDoS protection, SSL).

Website = a couple of static pages + images + a few forms embeds running on airtable
Thx !
Google cloud if you want a big vendor.

https://cloud.google.com/sustainability

EU based smaller hosting provider such as scaleway:

https://www.scaleway.com/en/about-us/

For website, static generation opposes to loading ton of javascript and using a cdn.

Not much to go on here.

Thx !