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Re: Ask HN: Do you blog under your own domain? How?

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Namesilo DNS. Hosted on Netlify pointed from private gitlab repo. Hugo SSG. I like your blog :) Subscribed in RSS. OTOH, writing content is a challenge for me. If I try to start writing a tutorial, there seems to exist many others, with some of them being very high quality content. In the end it becomes futile to figure out what to write. Would appreciate any tips to start writing about something.

My take on it is - just write for yourself. If, when you read it, it sounds like a good write up to you for whatever your own reasons are, that is all that's required. If no one else reads it, fine. But you might be surprised, a lot of other people may find it interesting as well :)

Re: Ask HN: Do you blog under your own domain? How?

#32
I use Eleventy for my technical blog, and self-hosted Ghost for my tango music blog. I plan to migrate from Ghost to Eleventy such that my website is 100% static.

Eleventy is great for me because it's written in Javascript and I use Javascript every day for work. Very fast and capable. Can't say how it compares to other static site generators because it's the first one I've used.

My setup includes nginx and Letsencrypt, and that's pretty much it. The Ghost blog uses a SQLite database.

I wouldn't blog on any third-party service since they could kick me out anytime for any reason. My website is my digital garden. I don't monetize it, don't run ads there, don't sell anything. No reason to run it anywhere but on my own server.

Re: Ask HN: Do you blog under your own domain? How?

#33
I generate my website via me very own static site generator I've built for fun (and still working on it to make it open source for others to use).

The hosting is my local provider, I sent updates via FTP (oldschool huh?) and keep my website behind cloudflare to save some bandwidth.

https://lukaszkups.net/notes/

Re: Ask HN: Do you blog under your own domain? How?

#34
WordPress (the self-hosting, WordPress.org flavour). Works like a charm. It's flexible, easy-to-use and performs very well on a mid-range virtual host. It's also reasonably secure if you apply common sense and best practices (e.g. use complex passwords) and don't install plugins indiscriminately.

There are plugins for every feature you could possibly need.

You admittedly have to put in some time for researching and comparing those and not fall for the temptation to install the first plugin you come across for a particular feature.

Re: Ask HN: Do you blog under your own domain? How?

#39
I already had a PHP site so I wanted an easy way to integrate a blog in my site. I ended up creating a micro-blogging library[0], which just renders markdown as blog posts. The advantage is that there is no build step, you only write markdown files (VSCode has live-preview by default for markdown) and you have easy versioning as markdown is just text.

[0]: https://github.com/Cristy94/markdown-blog

Re: Ask HN: Do you blog under your own domain? How?

#40

Yes, I used Ghost for my blog, and hosted on DigitalOcean, and domain gotten from namecheap. Monthly server cost is $5, Domain cost $15 a year If you are interested to check it out, https://fluffy.es (iOS development mainly)

Doesn't having a regional domain name (.es) affect SEO and user expectation? I thought the website is in Spanish.
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