This is a solved problem. Use WordPress. It's insanely customizable, has a huge ecosystem and now runs 27% of the sites on the web.
Ask HN: Where do you host your personal blog these days?
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#52Hugo + 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 do a https proxy like cloudflare
Re: Ask HN: Where do you host your personal blog these days?
#53This is a solved problem. Use WordPress. It's insanely customizable, has a huge ecosystem and now runs 27% of the sites on the web.
> How do people implement live dashboards on the web these days?
> This is a solved problem. Use Flash. It's insanely customizable, has a huge ecosystem and now runs x% of the sites on the web.
This is argumentum ad populum. Lots of people used Java applets or Flash just a few short years ago, and I think we can all agree that the current HTML5/CSS3/JS ecosystem is much better.
Re: Ask HN: Where do you host your personal blog these days?
#54GitHub pages, and I use nginx to add SSL and proxy to it through one of my servers.
This is a nice solution but if you have any readers that don't live near you, you may want to think about using Cloudflare for SSL termination. SSL can add unacceptably high latency to connection costs for people who are not in close proximity to your host. A typical HTTPS handshake using TLS requires 4 round trips assuming no packet loss. The Cloudflare CDN does a great job of making sure this penalty is reduced as much as possible by having edge nodes as close to as many users as possible. Just something to think about.
edit: You may even want to think about using something like netlify. The free tier is easily generous for all but the most popular personal blogs and if you outgrow it you probably will be able to make enough revenue to pay for better hosting anyways.
Re: Ask HN: Where do you host your personal blog these days?
#55Netlify with a GitHub post-update hook to automatically build and deploy when I push. No muss no fuss with free SSL termination provided by letsencrypt and low latency handshakes across the globe. Now if only I had something to write...
Re: Ask HN: Where do you host your personal blog these days?
#56GitHub pages, and I use nginx to add SSL and proxy to it through one of my servers.
This is a nice solution but if you have any readers that don't live near you, you may want to think about using Cloudflare for SSL termination. SSL can add unacceptably high latency to connection costs for people who are not in close proximity to your host. A typical HTTPS handshake using TLS requires 4 round trips assuming no packet loss. The Cloudflare CDN does a great job of making sure this penalty is reduced as…
Absolutely not. CloudFlare is a cancer on the net. I won't trade security for centralization and marginal speed improvements, my blog is pretty slim anyway.
Re: Ask HN: Where do you host your personal blog these days?
#57Hugo + 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
Or if you are lazy, just github. https://github.com/divbit/blog
Re: Ask HN: Where do you host your personal blog these days?
#58AWS RI t1.small $15/mo/year.
Re: Ask HN: Where do you host your personal blog these days?
#59Hugo + 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 use the cloudflare free plan. The user will see https. Traffic will be encrypted between the user and cloudflare, but not between cloudflare and github. For a personal site that's not transmitting PII over the wire, I don't see a problem with that.
Re: Ask HN: Where do you host your personal blog these days?
#60This is a solved problem. Use WordPress. It's insanely customizable, has a huge ecosystem and now runs 27% of the sites on the web.
> How do people implement live dashboards on the web these days? > This is a solved problem. Use Flash. It's insanely customizable, has a huge ecosystem and now runs x% of the sites on the web. This is argumentum ad populum. Lots of people used Java applets or Flash just a few short years ago, and I think we can all agree that the current HTML5/CSS3/JS ecosystem is much better.
When the goal is marketing or communication it's rational to use the more popular ecosystem. The huge ecosystem gives you a huge advantage in getting things done and there are no bonus points for being right in advance. This is as true with blogs today as it was for flash a few years ago. Over the past five years many companies have essentially set fire to their money making HTML5 versions of their flash games, reinventing the wheel for multiple tools in their setup and extend development time only to find their HTML5 versions got worse reviews and were still buggy on some browsers.
And unlike flash vs HTML5, your choice of blogging back-end does nothing to extend your reach. Flash sites weren't usable for iPhone users but WP absolutely is. Not only that, but there are thousands of free themes and plugins to optimize the experience.
The rational way to pick a platform is to evaluate them based on the advantages they offer you now. For most sites now that's not going to be flash. For most blogs it's going to be WP with the occasional feeder post to Medium/LinkedIn/Facebook.