I've been using Medium for almost 2-3 years now to host my personal site and blog (https://tigran.nyc). I've started to feel I want something more customizable. Any suggestions will be appreciated.
Ask HN: Where do you host your personal blog these days?
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Re: Ask HN: Where do you host your personal blog these days?
#2Chances are, nobody cares and nobody finds your site in the first place. Just keep a desktop zimwiki or a diary. I recommend using fountain pens, they are lovely tools to write with.
People read successful people's blogs, not yours nor mine (had one 15 years ago, no one read that either). So stop wasting time on tweaking the front porch and work on the piping instead.
Re: Ask HN: Where do you host your personal blog these days?
#3Chances are, nobody cares and nobody finds your site in the first place. Just keep a desktop zimwiki or a diary. I recommend using fountain pens, they are lovely tools to write with. People read successful people's blogs, not yours nor mine (had one 15 years ago, no one read that either). So stop wasting time on tweaking the front porch and work on the piping instead.
I am a fairly unknown random person, and I get about 100 people a day to my personal blog, hosted on github pages. I don't promote it at all, it's mostly organic search results on whatever problem I've had to solve or solution I've discovered. I post once every few months.
Occasionally I get an email thanking me for a post, or correcting some error.
Re: Ask HN: Where do you host your personal blog these days?
#4I host Ghost on a digital ocean VM. $5 a month isn't too bad hosting anything.
Re: Ask HN: Where do you host your personal blog these days?
#5I've been using budgetvm's openvz VPS's for 2 yrs. Fairly happy, plenty of options for space if you need it.
Re: Ask HN: Where do you host your personal blog these days?
#6Look at static blog generators (hugo, jekyll) + s3 + cloudfront. You don't pay unless you have traffic.
Re: Ask HN: Where do you host your personal blog these days?
#7I recently switched my old VPS-hosted Wordpress blog to a static site generated by Middleman[1] hosted on Github pages[2]. It's been a really nice way to maintain flexibility of design with a huge boost to performance and improved development/writing workflow. I use markdown so I can even write my articles in a markdown editor if I want to.
Re: Ask HN: Where do you host your personal blog these days?
#8I use Pelican (static generator) and host on Digital Ocean (calebmadrigal.com).
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Re: Ask HN: Where do you host your personal blog these days?
#10I've use Ghost on Digital Ocean for a few years now. $5/month is pretty cheap. No issues so far.