Ask HN: What do you use for your personal blog? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What do you use for your personal blog?

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Post by leros » Sat, Sep 21, 2024, 5:04 PM UTC

skwee357 wrote: post #30

leros wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would you move from a static host to a VPS for a blog?

To clarify, it’s about the server. It still static, but will be served from my hardware rather than a PaaS.

But isn't a VPS an inferior option compared to a static host like Netlify? Netlify is free and gets your statics on a global CDN. A VPS is not free and has to serve the statics itself.

Re: Ask HN: What do you use for your personal blog?

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Post by latchkey » Sat, Sep 21, 2024, 5:04 PM UTC

Not personal, but I've started using bullet.so for my company blog (and website).

I like that I can just write stuff in Notion and have it magically appear on a webpage with decent formatting. Not perfect, but fairly easy to setup, customize and maintain.

Re: Ask HN: What do you use for your personal blog?

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Post by keraf » Sat, Sep 21, 2024, 5:14 PM UTC

Ghost for my personal blog and also photography portfolio. Been happily using it for years, easy to self host. Quite surprised not to see more mentions of it here.

Re: Ask HN: What do you use for your personal blog?

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Post by rinvi » Sat, Sep 21, 2024, 5:26 PM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: What do you use for your personal blog?

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Post by jdevy » Sat, Sep 21, 2024, 5:42 PM UTC

I like Jekyll [1]. It is simple, uses markdown, and open source. I am not sure about the SEO part though.

[1]: https://jekyllrb.com/

Re: Ask HN: What do you use for your personal blog?

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Post by indigodaddy » Sat, Sep 21, 2024, 5:47 PM UTC

mmarian wrote: post #27

Astro SSG. Can easily add Tailwind and React, which I use in my day to day. Got a couple of sites ranked in top 3 for the keywords I'm targeting. Hosted on Cloudflare Pages, for free.

Would you mind sharing those sites?

Re: Ask HN: What do you use for your personal blog?

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Post by ramon156 » Sat, Sep 21, 2024, 5:51 PM UTC

Zola. Nice defaults, that's it. Also I'm biased towards Rust

Re: Ask HN: What do you use for your personal blog?

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Post by senkora » Sat, Sep 21, 2024, 5:59 PM UTC

Use a static site generator that is written in a language that you know well, so that you will be comfortable updating it and installing extensions. I use Pelican because I am comfortable with Python. Many people use Jekyll because they are comfortable with Ruby.

Re: Ask HN: What do you use for your personal blog?

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Post by mmarian » Sat, Sep 21, 2024, 6:06 PM UTC

indigodaddy wrote: post #36

mmarian wrote: post #27

Astro SSG. Can easily add Tailwind and React, which I use in my day to day. Got a couple of sites ranked in top 3 for the keywords I'm targeting. Hosted on Cloudflare Pages, for free.

Would you mind sharing those sites?

Sure, hackernewsalerts.com and https://tiktokexamples.com I also use Astro for https://hextotailwind.com which isn't technically a blog but ranked 2 on Google. I've recently open sourced all of them, check out on https://GitHub.com/mihailthebuilder

Re: Ask HN: What do you use for your personal blog?

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Post by innertracks » Sat, Sep 21, 2024, 6:20 PM UTC

Racknerd VPS running Caddy serving a Hugo generated static site. Site and content are created/edited in Emacs and rsynced to server. Took the default Hugo generated theme and tweaked it to my tastes. Forget where I sourced the original CSS I used as a starting point.

https://www.hextxt.com