PSA: Always use a separate domain for user content

Summary

Google Safe Browsing incident Oct 10, 2025 By Eric Selin - Founder, statichost.eu For approximately six hours on 25.9.2025, the entire statichost.eu domain was flagged as deceptive by Google Safe Search. This meant that anyone using Google Safe Search was shown a very aggressive warning or outright blocked when trying to access any site on the statichost.eu domain. In some cases even custom domains hosted on the statichost.eu platform were affected. This post is part incident report and part privacy (and monopoly) rant. Google has too much power over the Internet. Or in the most objective way possible: Google controls and/or monitors a substantial part of every single interaction on the Internet. You may think that this is fine, and that is your right, although I very much disagree. Especially since Google blocked all of statichost.eu for “over five billion” devices for several hours. Here is how it went down: I woke up to some pretty bad news on Monday a couple of weeks ago. A few users had started reporting that statichost.eu is unavailable due to a security warning. This is not great, I think to myself, and go into incident response mode. Immediately, I check https://www.statichost.eu, and see that it’s working. No TLS issues or other technical problems - maybe a browser issue or network problem? Ok, so I start investigating. The affected users all mention Google, so I start there. I use Chromium for Google-specific things (only), so I open it up and fire up a Google search. I actually cannot see statichost.eu on Google now, which is weird - it should be the top-ranked result for my keywords (e.g. “europen static hosting”). While I wait for Google Search Console to load, I check www.statichost.eu again in Chromium, just in case. And BOOM! There it is. Now I start panicing. Google is blocking me from my own website! It apparently thinks I might be deceived - I guess into doing something I shouldn’t do or something I’ll regret later? Back in the Search Console, whi...