Ask HN: Where do you host your personal blog these days? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Where do you host your personal blog these days?

#21

Post by fgandiya » Fri, Mar 17, 2017, 8:52 PM UTC

Right now, I'm using WordPress.com since it's pretty simple to use and the editor works really well.

I'm looking into a better way to host a blog, but it will be a while until I do.

Re: Ask HN: Where do you host your personal blog these days?

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Post by 0xCMP » Fri, Mar 17, 2017, 8:52 PM UTC

Hugo + Github is killer. So is Jekyll on Github, I just prefer Hugo because it's easier to setup locally and also allows greater theme control.

my site: https://cmp.is repo: https://github.com/0xcmp/cmpis.github.io-hugo

Re: Ask HN: Where do you host your personal blog these days?

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Post by _qxjp » Fri, Mar 17, 2017, 8:52 PM UTC

I'm using Jekyll + Firebase Hosting on my blog[0]. Currently looking into switching to Hugo[1] as it doesn't require Ruby and claims to generate pages much faster.

[0]: https://citrusui.me/blog

[1]: https://gohugo.io

Re: Ask HN: Where do you host your personal blog these days?

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Post by patmcguire » Fri, Mar 17, 2017, 8:53 PM UTC

Hostgator, I starting using it a bazillion years ago and it hasn't broken yet. I'm almost certainly hackable, but it works.

Re: Ask HN: Where do you host your personal blog these days?

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Post by pgbovine » Fri, Mar 17, 2017, 8:57 PM UTC

webfaction is great

Re: Ask HN: Where do you host your personal blog these days?

#26

Post by cies » Fri, Mar 17, 2017, 8:59 PM UTC

_qxjp wrote: post #23

I'm using Jekyll + Firebase Hosting on my blog[0]. Currently looking into switching to Hugo[1] as it doesn't require Ruby and claims to generate pages much faster. [0]: https://citrusui.me/blog [1]: https://gohugo.io

I can attest, Hugo is very fast. You might want to look into https://www.netlifycms.org/ (works with Hugo among others), and https://github.com/netlify/victor-hugo if you want to use Gulp/Webpack in your workflow.

Re: Ask HN: Where do you host your personal blog these days?

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Post by steveklabnik » Fri, Mar 17, 2017, 9:00 PM UTC

Svbtle. Ghost is nice. GitHub Pages is fine.

Re: Ask HN: Where do you host your personal blog these days?

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Post by ellisv » Fri, Mar 17, 2017, 9:04 PM UTC

Hugo + GitHub pages + AWS Route 53

Re: Ask HN: Where do you host your personal blog these days?

#29

Post by _qxjp » Fri, Mar 17, 2017, 9:04 PM UTC

cies wrote: post #26

_qxjp wrote: post #23

I'm using Jekyll + Firebase Hosting on my blog[0]. Currently looking into switching to Hugo[1] as it doesn't require Ruby and claims to generate pages much faster. [0]: https://citrusui.me/blog [1]: https://gohugo.io

I can attest, Hugo is very fast. You might want to look into https://www.netlifycms.org/ (works with Hugo among others), and https://github.com/netlify/victor-hugo if you want to use Gulp/Webpack in your workflow.

Thanks. Netlify's dashboard has improved a lot since I last used it (which was a month or two ago.)

Re: Ask HN: Where do you host your personal blog these days?

#30

Post by PuffinBlue » Fri, Mar 17, 2017, 9:07 PM UTC

darkstar999 wrote: post #6

Look at static blog generators (hugo, jekyll) + s3 + cloudfront. You don't pay unless you have traffic.

Static generators are what I'd recommend (my preferences are Hugo and Nikola) but instead of s3/cloudfront I use Netlify to deploy.

I've commented about Netlify before but they really are pretty great. The free tier is enough for a personal blog.

I've also used GitLab pages, but their integrated CI can be pretty slow (sometimes taking several hours to run) and I got frustrated with that, but they're a solid choice when not having those issues.