My thoughts about Krystal
This is going to start out sounding negative, but it's actually an endorsement, if perhaps one that acknowledges drawbacks.
My website is hosted on a VPS in Amsterdam, Netherlands, provided by Krystal, a UK business claiming to offer "ultra-fast, secure green web hosting powered by 100% renewable energy" and "award-winning UK support."
I haven't needed their support services, so I can't comment on that aspect. I can tell you, at least with the package I'm signed up for, their hosting is not "ultra-fast," as you've likely noticed as a visitor.
Which, to me at least, is actually encouraging. To me, that speaks volumes to the likelihood of authenticity to their claim that it is "green" and "powered by 100% renewable energy." It's completely reasonable and expected for hosting held to such constraints to be a little bit slow. I am impressed that web hosting based on clean energy can exist at all, and floored that it operates acceptably fast. That's amazing to me.
Starting at €10/mo—€7/mo if you don't need full control over your server—you can host a whole website all without hurting the planet. And, since there's no such thing as green AI, and AI-enthusiastic companies accordingly tend to care nothing for environmentalism, one can reasonably assume that means, if you get your hosting through Krystal, you're supporting a company that doesn't stand with the art theft and disinfo machine.
I transferred my website to Krystal from DigitalOcean, which prides itself on being an AI platform and has poor customer service. Despite the massive downgrade in my site's response time, I couldn't be happier with my choice, because I'm no longer putting (as much) money into the pockets of oligarchs content to both socially and ecologically destroy the world for their own personal gain. Since Squarespace is also an AI platform, I will shortly be transferring my domain name from Squarespace to Krystal as well. In addition, to reduce my reliance on Google, one of the most egregious AI platforms of them all, I will as soon as possible be reactivating my independent email address via mailbox.org, a privacy-focused and environmentally friendly email provider.
If you don't need to run a massive operation that can only function by devouring the planet, I wholeheartedly recommend Krystal. It's perfectly suitable for personal and portfolio-style sites like mine, and I have had no significant issue running self-hosted services off of it for personal use and use by small circles of peers, either.