How to Host a Blog on a Subdirectory Instead of a Subdomain (2025) • Hacker News Board

Re: How to Host a Blog on a Subdirectory Instead of a Subdomain (2025)

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Post by cr125rider » Sat, Apr 18, 2026, 12:44 AM UTC

ahme wrote: post #9

teach wrote: post #3

Maybe should add "with Cloudflare Workers" to the headline Because hosting a blog inside a subdirectory is like the most trivial webserver thing ever

Are we not just doing static html for blogs anymore?

That doesn’t sound bloated enough. Too fast. Gonna give a user whiplash.

Re: How to Host a Blog on a Subdirectory Instead of a Subdomain (2025)

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Post by Bender » Sat, Apr 18, 2026, 1:05 AM UTC

ahme wrote: post #9

teach wrote: post #3

Maybe should add "with Cloudflare Workers" to the headline Because hosting a blog inside a subdirectory is like the most trivial webserver thing ever

Are we not just doing static html for blogs anymore?

We could just enable auto-index and drop a bunch of .txt files into it.

Re: How to Host a Blog on a Subdirectory Instead of a Subdomain (2025)

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Post by doublerabbit » Sat, Apr 18, 2026, 1:25 AM UTC

cr125rider wrote: post #11

ahme wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are we not just doing static html for blogs anymore?

That doesn’t sound bloated enough. Too fast. Gonna give a user whiplash.

.htaccess that rewrites the .txt to serve the file as an .html extension. With help from bash you then append a bootstrap v3 CSS library to all files.

Using websockets for post updates this feeds in to a webview component powered by django that interacts with an Angular PHP parser using Wordpress as the database translation layer that a python daemon watches and dumps the wordpress entry back in to a text file.

You then render this in to a shadow DOM with react and include Vue.js and Next.js to create a carousel and landing page boilerplate.

Re: How to Host a Blog on a Subdirectory Instead of a Subdomain (2025)

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Post by shmoe » Sat, Apr 18, 2026, 1:38 AM UTC

teach wrote: post #3

Maybe should add "with Cloudflare Workers" to the headline Because hosting a blog inside a subdirectory is like the most trivial webserver thing ever

also proof that everything old is new again at some point.

Re: How to Host a Blog on a Subdirectory Instead of a Subdomain (2025)

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Post by nomel » Sat, Apr 18, 2026, 1:40 AM UTC

taikon wrote: post #5

teach wrote: post #3

Maybe should add "with Cloudflare Workers" to the headline Because hosting a blog inside a subdirectory is like the most trivial webserver thing ever

I wanted to but it said it exceeds the character limit

I was hoping this was a joke about storing your blog text AS the subdirectory name.

Re: How to Host a Blog on a Subdirectory Instead of a Subdomain (2025)

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Post by erdaniels » Sat, Apr 18, 2026, 3:16 AM UTC

I'm not trying to be rude here, but this doesn't belong on this site. This is like posting documentation on CloudFlare for a tutorial that isn't remotely a feature.

Re: How to Host a Blog on a Subdirectory Instead of a Subdomain (2025)

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Apr 18, 2026, 3:43 AM UTC

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Re: How to Host a Blog on a Subdirectory Instead of a Subdomain (2025)

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Post by Computer0 » Sat, Apr 18, 2026, 5:12 AM UTC

I use a subdomain because I like it, and my goals are not aligned with the assumed goals of the article.

Re: How to Host a Blog on a Subdirectory Instead of a Subdomain (2025)

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Post by sofixa » Sat, Apr 18, 2026, 5:35 AM UTC

ahme wrote: post #9

teach wrote: post #3

Maybe should add "with Cloudflare Workers" to the headline Because hosting a blog inside a subdirectory is like the most trivial webserver thing ever

Are we not just doing static html for blogs anymore?

We are, but throwing the static HTML on a global CDN (like CloudFlare Pages/Workers, Netlify, Firebase Hosting, etc) makes things easier (nothing to maintain) and ensures that if we end up popular on HN or Reddit, there is no hug of death because the scale is infinite. Also, all of those have very generous free tiers, so it can cost nothing.