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Self-hosting a blog for cheap and lazy devs

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Re: Self-hosting a blog for cheap and lazy devs

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Post by mark212 »

chrisseaton wrote: post #3

This seems both more work and more expensive than GitHub Pages. Hardly the cheap or lazy option. And if the author is reading - your Author link is broken.

Not disagreeing, but the post is titled "Self-Hosting a Blog" which I would assume means that the blog author has already made the decision not to use GitHub or Netlify (for some reason, don't know why).

The truly cheap would go with one of them and avoid the $2.50 monthly fee for a server.

Re: Self-hosting a blog for cheap and lazy devs

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Post by mark212 »

thesandlord wrote: post #9
chrisseaton wrote: post #3

This seems both more work and more expensive than GitHub Pages. Hardly the cheap or lazy option. And if the author is reading - your Author link is broken.

Yeah, creating a Docker container and setting up Caddy seems like a lot of work. Netlify, Firebase Hosting, GitHub pages, etc, all make it super easy to host a static blog for free, require zero maintenance, and are all backed by global CDNs. My blog setup uses Netlify to automatically build and deploy on a git push using the built in Hugo support. Now of course, there is the argument of what "self-hosting" is. Does…

agreed, seems like running your own server just for a blog is really overkill and has a lot of overhead for no reason

Re: Self-hosting a blog for cheap and lazy devs

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Post by [deleted] »

mark212 wrote: post #11
chrisseaton wrote: post #3

This seems both more work and more expensive than GitHub Pages. Hardly the cheap or lazy option. And if the author is reading - your Author link is broken.

Not disagreeing, but the post is titled "Self-Hosting a Blog" which I would assume means that the blog author has already made the decision not to use GitHub or Netlify (for some reason, don't know why). The truly cheap would go with one of them and avoid the $2.50 monthly fee for a server.

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Re: Self-hosting a blog for cheap and lazy devs

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

nopit wrote: post #2

Why isn't caddy in a container?

It's a single binary file, so there's not a whole lot to be gained unless you're already doing containers in general. When the entire system is this few moving parts, I'm not sure that it's worth the trouble of containerizing it.

Re: Self-hosting a blog for cheap and lazy devs

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Post by MaxBarraclough »

staysaasy wrote: post #4

We host our blog using solely off-the-shelf tools, and I love the stack that we use. I highly recommend it if you're looking for a stack with 100% control and are ok with some light technical wrangling (eg using Git): - Jekyll for static site generation https://jekyllrb.com/ - We use the Hydeout Jekyll theme, you can see how it looks on our blog: http://staysaasy.com/ . What you see is out-of-the-box plus ~30 lines o…

All sounds good apart from GoDaddy. Why not use a more reputable registrar?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4362478

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