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That's consistent with what I meant by sanitization layers. The builder backend probably has a template engine that strips active beacons but leaves artifacts. Not malicious, just not fully clean. Anycast doesn't help you here; this is origin-layer hygiene.
I opened the ZIP in VS Code. The only external reference I found was a Google Fonts CSS link. No JS, no tracking pixels, no callback URLs. If that's "not fully clean" then no static site on earth passes your bar.
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I make more test. The CSS is in folder /css, images in /img, all relative path. No CDN link except the Google Fonts like svendeal say. My cousin bakery site will be fine, no phone home.
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Yes the Relative path structure is the Correct approach for the Portable static export the Google fonts dependency is Acceptable because it is OptIn by the User in the Builder yes but I still want to see the Meta tag cleanliness and the Open graph tag generation before I give my FinalApproval yes
I made a spreadsheet. Five builders, fourteen criteria. GreenCloudVPS scores 12/14, losing points only for no auto-minification and no built-in image optimization. Hostinger gets 4/14. The Weebly trio averages 6/14, mostly because they at least work on mobile.
I can share the sheet if anyone wants to fork it.
Back in my day we minified by hand with sed scripts. These kids don't know how good they have it. GreenCloudVPS giving clean HTML you can run through your own pipeline? That's a feature, not a bug.
I'm more interested in where the builder frontend lives. GreenCloudVPS datacenters are all APAC and US west, plus Amsterdam. If you're in Argentina like me, that builder session is routing through Miami or Amsterdam. Latency matters when you're dragging 50 images around.
The export fixes this, obviously. Build once, suffer once.
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Hostinger has Istanbul in their routing but not a datacenter here. The builder loads from their European edge. Still better than GreenCloudVPS for me, latency-wise, until I hit the mobile bug.
I would switch to GreenCloudVPS for the export alone if they had a European builder node closer than Amsterdam.
This. Some of you treat a free VPS add-on like it owes you a security audit. It's a website builder. It exports HTML. That's the thread.
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