I finally recovered it after buying a SATA-to-USB adapter.
Timestamps show that the folder was last modified on February 3, 2025 at 09:04pm (UTC+8) with the files inside last modified between February 1, 2025 at 05:17pm (UTC+8) and February 7, 2025 at 10:52pm (UTC+8).
I think you could maintain the open source bit of the site easily while shopping around for your own provider, since there are a lot of folks who have set up pipelines to send their sourcecode to GitHub, GitLabs, SourceHut, etc but still host elsewhere. I haven’t done it myself, but I’m sure some of our other members could help with set up tips.
If you’re comfortable setting up the server software yourself, LowEndTalk has a lot of deals posted to their forums frequently, and the basic hosting is all pretty much the same.
You have many options for free hosting as long as your site is static, many of which can be deployed automatically from a git repo like Github Pages (pages.gay, statichost.eu, grebedoc.dev, Codeberg Pages…). If you need server side scripting, your options are more limited. I use HelioHost for dynamic stuff.
For redundancy you can push your repo to multiple forges. I push everything to three now. I felt like it was overkill when I set it up but then Codeberg and Github started going down all the time. Here’s how it looks in .git/config:
[remote "origin"]
url = ssh://git@git.gay/pnppl/pnppl.cc.git
fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
pushurl = ssh://git@git.gay/pnppl/pnppl.cc.git
pushurl = ssh://git@github.com/pnppl/pnppl.cc.git
pushurl = ssh://git@codeberg.org/pnppl/pnppl.cc.git
The only annoying thing is as far as I can tell you can’t just push to an empty repo to create it, you have to go through the web UI to set it up.
Also, you can still wipe them all out at once if you aren’t careful. git it not a backup, etc.
Codeberg (look it up; my account is too new to post links) is quickly becoming the darling git host for open source projects. I’ve begun hosting all my new stuff there. That said, perhaps you should decouple the site hosting from the git host. I get that it’s convenient to just turn a repo into a site on the same platform, but I think you’re going to see worse performance on platforms other than GitHub.
There are many static web hosts available as others have mentioned. I suggest researching and picking one then having a script that builds and deploys the site to that host. Then it doesn’t matter where the git repo is hosted, and you can use your own domain name.
You can also run the script on your local computer and upload to a host, even if your computer is old. That’s what I do with my website, and my laptop is 20 years old.
Gang gang! This is how I do most of my stuff, on a 15 year old chromebook I got for $30.