Bye Netlify, Hello Apache

Today I finally deleted my last website on Netlify after using Netlify for almost 10 years. Netlify was fun when I first started using it. The Microsoft GitHub integration made publishing on the web fun. You push your changes to your repository and one minute later you can share your site with your friends. You can't beat the feeling of immediacy every time someone shortens the feedback loop. Yet every good thing must come to an end. Microsoft started slowly killing Netlify and GitHub integrations just aren't cool anymore. I'm hosting more and more of my projects on CodeBerg or Sourcehut. Many times I don't even push anything to a "Git forge" anymore. I'm fine with uploading my site files directly. There's a reason PHP graybeards miss their "Edit with FTP" immediacy. Netlify fails being easy here. Their upload CLI has hostile opt-out telemetry. Enshitnetlify Opt-out telemetry is bullshit. Neither rsync, sftp, nor S3 uploads with boto3 send my personal computer's IP address and other…