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

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

#41

Post by Curiositry » Sat, Sep 21, 2024, 6:29 PM UTC

Ghost, self-hosted on Fly.io free tier

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

#42

Post by thesnide » Sat, Sep 21, 2024, 6:39 PM UTC

canergly wrote: post #5

gregjor wrote: post #4

github page with a custom domain

I think it is for deployment right? I was also looking for a blogging system / script that I can host anywhere I like.

I'm also using github pages. It is limited but boring enables to focus on content instead of trying every fancy tool.

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

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Post by stevenicr » Sat, Sep 21, 2024, 9:08 PM UTC

Wordpress is nice for many reasons, people will pan it for security and such..

install, add firewall like wordfence, change max failed logins to low number.

turn on auto updates for WP and the plugins and themes.

Pull backups auto and free with updraft plugin.

enjoy the massive amount of themes and support around the www

https://steveiscritical.com uses base WP with default theme, I have several others that mod the themeing more.

bonus - skip tutorials that use page builders like elementor - base gutenberg does most the things out of the box these days, not need for extra bloat to be fancy.

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

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Post by RNPL » Sun, Sep 22, 2024, 1:54 AM UTC

Zola!

I'd use plain HTML+CSS, but Zola adds some nice tools (like markdown rendering). It lives in a single binary, so I don't mind it. Hosted on GitHub pages.

https://www.getzola.org/

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

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Post by skwee357 » Sun, Sep 22, 2024, 8:59 AM UTC

leros wrote: post #31

skwee357 wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Netlify is free as long as you don't hit their limits, afterwards it becomes pretty expensive.

I don't care much about the CDN aspect, its a blog in the end, and I prefer to host everything on an infrastructure I can control

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

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Post by stevenicr » Sun, Sep 22, 2024, 3:33 PM UTC

stevenicr wrote: post #43

Wordpress is nice for many reasons, people will pan it for security and such.. install, add firewall like wordfence, change max failed logins to low number. turn on auto updates for WP and the plugins and themes. Pull backups auto and free with updraft plugin. enjoy the massive amount of themes and support around the www https://steveiscritical.com uses base WP with default theme, I have several others that mod the t…

I've several learn stuff quick about wordpress things added on this learn page: https://steveiscritical.com/learn-websites-and-coding/