Ask HN: Do you blog under your own domain? How?

#1

Post by gtrubetskoy » Sat, May 16, 2020, 6:51 PM UTC

I'm put off by increasing centralization (I won't name companies, you know them) and would like to know who still does it "old school", hosting their own blog. I'm especially interested in the technology behind it.

E.g. mine is grisha.org and it's hosted on github pages and behind cloudflare which is how I get SSL. Cost: $0. The blog itself is Octopress and it's kind of aging, I might look at Hugo next if/when I have time.

Re: Ask HN: Do you blog under your own domain? How?

#2

Post by doersino » Sat, May 16, 2020, 7:01 PM UTC

I use Uberspace [1] – they're a Germany-based shared hosting provider with proper shell access, a pay-what-you-want model and they're generally very nerd-friendly – to host a fairly basic Jekyll blog [2], among other things.

The domain is managed via Hover [3].

[1]: https://uberspace.de

[2]: https://excessivelyadequate.com

[3]: https://www.hover.com

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#3

Post by otras » Sat, May 16, 2020, 8:33 PM UTC

I do something very similar, although I hesitate to claim that I’m doing it old school. I use a Hugo blog hosted on GitHub pages, and my biggest expense is paying ISNIC (the Icelandic domain registry) for a .is site that works well with my last name.

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#4

Post by marssaxman » Sat, May 16, 2020, 8:55 PM UTC

My blog still technically exists, though I haven't posted in several years. It lives on an instance of wordpress hosted by pair.com. I'm not sure if that's what you mean by "hosting their own blog", but I own the domain name, so I could move it somewhere else if I ever wanted to.

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#5

Post by BorisTheBrave » Sat, May 16, 2020, 9:16 PM UTC

Wordpress hosted on Dreamhost.

I used to run Drupal, but it wasn't worth the effort.

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#6

Post by houqp » Sat, May 16, 2020, 9:19 PM UTC

Mine is managed using Github, generated using Hugo and hosted using netlify. Also costs $0 other than the domain name, which I use for other purpose as well.

You can check it out at: https://about.houqp.me/posts/

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#7

Post by doomrobo » Sat, May 16, 2020, 9:23 PM UTC

I have a Digital ocean droplet that costs me $5/mo. I host a static site at https://mrosenberg.pub using Jekyll, nginx, and Lets Encrypt.

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#8

Post by DoreenMichele » Sat, May 16, 2020, 9:25 PM UTC

I blog via blogger.com. You can use your own domain name with a blogger site.

I do so for some things.

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#9

Post by zn44 » Sat, May 16, 2020, 9:37 PM UTC

I didn’t post anything yet but I’ve recently set up a blog using Hugo, s3 & cloudfront

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#10

Post by nickdothutton » Sat, May 16, 2020, 10:03 PM UTC

Generated by Hugo, hosted on smallest AWS LightSail, own domain. Uses nginx, Lets Encrypt, FBSD. Auto-updates everything and if something breaks it breaks. 1000 days and zero maintenance. https://blog.eutopian.io/the-stack/