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

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Post by jff »

Wrote my own thing on top of Go's http package. It handles subdomains to a limited extent and will also serve Markdown-formatted blog entries. I run it on a RAM Host KVM-based VPS, which I also use as a shell box and a traffic-forwarding endpoint when I'm on untrusted networks. The RAM Host VPS is a little expensive but after some incredibly frustrating experiences with the idiots at ChicagoVPS, the lack of drama has been well worth it.

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

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Post by discreditable »

I use Octopress and host content on NearlyFreeSpeech.net. I like it over gh-pages because I can run TLS on the root domain and can tweak server headers via .htaccess. On top of that, static hosting at NFS is extremely cheap. 2016 cost me 82 cents. I get maybe 5k visitors/month and use 300mb/month. I cheat on bandwidth by caching at Cloudflare heavily. Without CF my bandwidth would be double (but still pretty cheap!).

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

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Post by Zazezizozuzy »

naragon wrote: post #16
darkstar999 wrote: post #6

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

Along these lines, I'm trying Github pages with Jekyll; works for me.

I'm going to second this, especially for a tech blog.

I sent one up in January. Despite not spending much time on it so far, there were a couple things I've already gathered from it.

First, is basic Git functionality. Without having much experience with remote repos, it provided me a good opportunity to try things out without being able to break too much. I essentially write up posts locally, then push them to a GitHub repo. Super simple.

Second is Linux and SSH. I have local repos on a Linux machine at home. I can SSH into the machine, write up a post, then push it out. I had very little knowledge of Linux and SSH prior. It's been pretty helpful.

The biggest thing I think it offers is convenience. I have a very simple way of writing posts, no matter where I am. It's pushed me to learn new systems (ones that a lot of people are already familiar with) and it allows for a simple means of fixing things (through GitHub's interface) in case I do break anything.

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

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Post by clubm8 »

0xCMP wrote: post #22

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

It's my understanding you can't deploy HTTPS on a github hosted Jeckyll site that's using - has that changed?

(To clarify: https:github.com/shitpostingblog, but https://shitbpostingblog.xyz is not)

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

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Post by NotQuantum »

dokument wrote: post #19
calebm wrote: post #8

I use Pelican (static generator) and host on Digital Ocean (calebmadrigal.com).

Pelican is great. I have it installed on a local vm which I use for composing then I push the static files to the webserver (ramnode). (www.adammelton.com)

I'm also a big ran of ramnode and pelican. I've had a host there for the past 4 years
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