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

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Post by drwl »

clubm8 wrote: post #39
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)

You can. I did it with cloud flare.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

clubm8 wrote: post #39
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)

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

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Post by justboxing »

I use a workflow that goes Hugo GitHug Netlify

Completely automated, blazing fast, and all 3 are FREE. Netlify even includes basic SSL for free (!!!), and that what I've implemented on all my Netlify hosted sites.

Here's 1 of my blogs that I maintain using this setup. https://www.pawpurrazi.com/

I've also made a youtube video tutorial showing you step by step how to do this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSwoCvd4QIc

I came to this setup from previously using WordPress to host all my blogs and then getting tired of dealing with all the security holes, performance bottlenecks and "pharma hacks" that come with it. I did evaluate Jekyll as the blog engine, but the lack of incremental builds was a dealbreaker for me. Hugo has incremental builds from v 0.16 onwards, and it is also super fast, I tested with 5000 posts, builds in a few seconds.

DISCLAIMER: I don't work for Netlify nor am affiliated with them. I find their service to be blazing fast and their support is excellent (even for free tiers), so I made the video a while back for everyone else to use. The co-founders Matt Biilmann and Chris Bach are both super smart and answer questions promptly, Matt also appears to have deep technical knowledge when it comes to caching, security, performance etc.

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

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Post by jcadam »

I used to run wordpress on a digitalocean FreeBSD VPS (and before that I was using some janky Ruby-on-Rails based blog engine), but I eventually grew tired of administering my own server just for a blog.

Now, I pay $2.95/month to have wordpress.com host it. I know it's not a very l33t solution, but the migration was easy and it works well enough. I get ~10 visitors a day, so it really doesn't matter, I suppose. It's mostly just a dumping ground for whatever nonsense pops into my head from time to time: (https://jamesadam.me/).

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