Hacker NewsQuestion says it all - I'm curious what the state of the art is for a community like HN (that, intuitively, wouldn't just start an eg. Substack).
- I edit my posts in a self hosted Ghost site that I run on my laptop as needed and then I use Eleventy to translate that into a static website which gets pushed to Neocities.org via WebDAV (requires the $5 a month plan)
https://mat.tl/blog/2024/10/29/migrating-from-wordpress-com-...
- Jekyll s3 cloudfront
- Astro blog deployed on Github Pages.
VS Code for editing.
Points to Ponder
-> Use the basic Astro template for blogs. It is basically enough for a self-hosted blog needs. Using any of the third party themes/templates with a list of features has a bunch of disadvantages. It takes more effort to customize and upgrading to newer versions totally breaks the setup, sucking in hours of your time.
-> VS Code has plenty of Markdown Extensions. Markdown Preview and Frontend Masters come to mind.
- Jekyll and nginx in Docker on Hetzner for €4.49/mo
- Hugo, s3 and CloudFront. I use GitHub actions to push to s3, that is my deployment pipeline.
- Astro, netlify (in a process to move to a VPS), neovim
- My personal blog is -
I self host because I love writing code. It's inspired by Medium. It was built with Django and Svelte. I could have written the whole thing with Django but I wanted to learn Svelte, and I had plans of making it bigger and more interactive initially.
It's hosted on Render.
- Add it to built with django!
- Will do!
- I use a from-scratch python script that generates a bunch of html files which are pushed to GitHub pages
- Next.js with SSR, hosted for free with Vercel. I’ve used Jekyll, Django and Craft CMS in the past.
- It's hosted on a computer located inside my apartment. It used to be hosted on a cheap Synology NAS. No Cloudflare or CDN or anything like that, just a bare NGINX server.
The website itself is built on Jekyll, but I want to switch to something else because I don't use Ruby/Gem for anything else and I can't be bothered to commit that stack to memory just for that.
- Is there a particular stack you prefer?
If JS, maybe consider Astro (for simple blogs)? It has built-in MDX support and deploys in a few seconds.
There's also Ghost, but it's a bit more complex. It has both a paid cloud version now and also the FOSS self-hosted version: https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost
If PHP, maybe https://getgrav.org/?
For Go or a prebuilt binary, maybe https://gohugo.io/?
- I'm a low-level kind of person, both at work and at home. My requirements are static site only, hosted locally and no fuss (if I need to look up how to install the associated ecosystem or deal with a package manager it's out).
If I had to migrate right now I'd probably go with Hugo.
- Fair enough! I can't be of any help there then. Hope you find something!
- Just nginx and static pre-compressed html and txt files. Publishing stack is my fingers and vim to get spell check. Backups are automated.
- Github pages: https://github.com/abid-personal/abid-personal.github.io -> makes -> https://omarabid.com
The static site is made with nextjs. This template: https://github.com/timlrx/tailwind-nextjs-starter-blog
- Ethereum.
- Nikola to generate a static site and blog that I never bother updating because Mastodon is easier, and some shell scripts. The script that publishes the site creates a git repo, adds the static files and the remote host, force-pushes to origin and then gets deleted. It's as elegant as it is useless.
- https://lille-oe.de/
Jekyll on GitHub Pages with various actions to automate stuff like calculating mileage statistics.
Editing via the GitJournal app.
- Hosted on GitHub Pages, built with React. For now I'm using nextjs, but a self-made static site generator is on the roadmap.
- Static website written entirely in Emacs' org-mode with a slightly customized publish script that gets executed on a push to `main`. Hosted on GitHub Pages.
- Astro hosted for free on Cloudflare Pages.
- A lot of aggregators will also not allow your blog to be posted if it's on a newsletter site like Substack, Patreon, etc.
I use GitHub Pages for hosting, Porkbun for the domain, and Astro for the blog itself. EZPZ to manage and very straightforward, plus Astro's docs are great.
- My personal blog is http://brettcmullins.com
It is a static site using Jekyll and hosted on GitHub Pages. Although I'm not doing anything fancy, I'm surprised at how flexible Jekyll is when I try to add a feature.
- Mine is really simple. I push the changes to git and then pull them through ssh. I am planning to somehow automate the process, but honestly it takes less then 20 seconds so I'm quite happy with it as it is
(My blog: Fedorvin.com)
- Yep I do, at https://marcolabarile.me/
Quite simple stack: Jekyll on Github Pages.