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Re: Ask HN: What stack is your personal blog built on?

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Post by gradschool »

huevosabio wrote: post #70

I wanted something that i) is simple to host and edit, ii) did not require me maintaining a server somewhere, and iii) it was easy to go from Jupyter notebooks to a post. So I opted for Pelican ( https://blog.getpelican.com/ ) which has a plugin for converting Jupyter/IPython notebooks into blog posts. It is hosted in S3. If you are curious, here it is: http://ramondario.com/

I'm interested in hosting a static site on s3 but worry that some smartass could rent a botnet and hammer the bucket just for lulz. It might only take a minute for the charges to bankrupt me, and I can't find any failsafe solution in the AWS documentation. I know I could make a billing alarm trigger a lambda function to disable public access, but it might not be instantaneous. Is there any reliable information to be had about the financial risks?

Re: Ask HN: What stack is your personal blog built on?

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Post by rasikjain »

My website: https://www.rasikjain.com

I have built this website with Hugo Static Generator. I found that Hugo has lot more variety of themes to choose and easier to understand the structure. I also like their templating engine. Set up is very easy and building and compiling the site is very fast.

I have also tried Gatsby before finalizing to go with Hugo. IMHO, Gatsby is equally good. However Gatsby is well suited for developers with bit of react knowledge and has limited set of theme selection. For performance, I like the pre-fetch functionality of Gatsby.

Here is my current setup.

   1) Hugo Static Site

   2) Code repository on Git

   3) Automated build and hosted on Netlify (Simple and easy to use)

Re: Ask HN: What stack is your personal blog built on?

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Post by toyg »

Blogger/Blogspot. Yes, it’s super-basic and frozen, but it’s also rock-solid. I’ve tried self-hosting and self-coding several things through the years, and almost all of that has been lost one way or the other... whereas good ol’ B still happily shows my posts from 2002, with zero effort on my part to keep it secure or up to date, and gets preferential seo treatment from Google.

Re: Ask HN: What stack is your personal blog built on?

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Post by marpstar »

veddox wrote: post #51
arthev wrote: post #5

I went with Wordpress after a blogging guide suggested to minimize time spent messing with the blogging software, because messing with blogging software isn't blogging.

True that, but it's good fun anyway ;-) Plus, I'd rather spend two days setting up a usable, solid stack than be annoyed with WordPress every time I load their web interface...

It's good fun to do once or twice, but eventually, like the parent poster states, you eventually find yourself having spent more time tinkering with the stack than actually writing.

I, too, went with WordPress after years of trying to avoid it. After having launched ~30 WP sites in the past ~5 years, it just made sense.

Re: Ask HN: What stack is your personal blog built on?

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Post by willio58 »

marpstar wrote: post #77
veddox wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

True that, but it's good fun anyway ;-) Plus, I'd rather spend two days setting up a usable, solid stack than be annoyed with WordPress every time I load their web interface...

It's good fun to do once or twice, but eventually, like the parent poster states, you eventually find yourself having spent more time tinkering with the stack than actually writing. I, too, went with WordPress after years of trying to avoid it. After having launched ~30 WP sites in the past ~5 years, it just made sense.

Once you are forced to use WordPress for a few projects you realize how powerful and easy it is to extend. If you can deal with PHP it will serve you well.

Re: Ask HN: What stack is your personal blog built on?

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Post by Sileni »

pkalinowski wrote: post #63
Sileni wrote: post #56

Running my girlfriend's recipe blog on Python + Django + Wagtail CMS on a Heroku server, wired up to Google cloud storage. It ends up being completely free with the dev tier Heroku server and staying within the free tier of Google's cloud storage. It was mostly as a learning exercise, but it's a pretty flexible stack, and I'm a fan of the Wagtail admin panel; didn't really feel the need to customize anything there.

How does it work with Heroku dynos waking up after inactivity? Whats the loading time?

Usually 10s or so. Not a great user experience, but she mostly uses it to share recipes with friends or relatives. Once it's awake, it's pretty quick, faster than Google's App Engine free tier in my experience. If she wanted to generate traffic I'd have no problem paying the $5/month to keep the lights on, and Heroku's pricing seems reasonable as you scale up.

Re: Ask HN: What stack is your personal blog built on?

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Post by amenghra »

gradschool wrote: post #71
huevosabio wrote: post #70

I wanted something that i) is simple to host and edit, ii) did not require me maintaining a server somewhere, and iii) it was easy to go from Jupyter notebooks to a post. So I opted for Pelican ( https://blog.getpelican.com/ ) which has a plugin for converting Jupyter/IPython notebooks into blog posts. It is hosted in S3. If you are curious, here it is: http://ramondario.com/

I'm interested in hosting a static site on s3 but worry that some smartass could rent a botnet and hammer the bucket just for lulz. It might only take a minute for the charges to bankrupt me, and I can't find any failsafe solution in the AWS documentation. I know I could make a billing alarm trigger a lambda function to disable public access, but it might not be instantaneous. Is there any reliable information to be…

Host it on github pages?
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