Ask HN: What do you use to host your Personal Site?

#1

Post by tikna » Fri, Jul 08, 2011, 6:17 PM UTC

Just curious to know. I know tumblr and posterous are really good if you don't want spend time managing the hosting.

But otherwise, what do you use to host your personal pages/blogs. A shared host, or VPS, or any other alternative?

Re: Ask HN: What do you use to host your Personal Site?

#2

Post by timjahn » Fri, Jul 08, 2011, 6:27 PM UTC

I use HostGator for my personal hosting and for various projects. As for my actual personal domain (timjahn.com), I recently switched it to direct to a simple flavors.me landing page.

I like the idea of people quickly getting a snapshot of me and my activities that way.

Re: Ask HN: What do you use to host your Personal Site?

#3

Post by charliepark » Fri, Jul 08, 2011, 6:39 PM UTC

tl;dr: Github Pages, using Jekyll

Recently, I wanted to start writing occasional posts, and wanted to split my original content off of my Tumblr (which I'd use to post "things I've found online that I like"). I played around with Jekyll and Github's hosted space, where they run Github Pages, and have been really happy with it.

Re: Ask HN: What do you use to host your Personal Site?

#4

Post by jterce » Fri, Jul 08, 2011, 6:42 PM UTC

I have that and about 12 sites on my Bluehost account.

Re: Ask HN: What do you use to host your Personal Site?

#5

Post by blumentopf » Fri, Jul 08, 2011, 6:57 PM UTC

https://www.hostsharing.net/

That's a co-operative, non-profit hosting provider. It works kind of like car sharing: Everyone pays a monthly fee, based on the resources he/she uses, and that is used to fund hardware, colocation costs, domain registration etc. Administration is done by a team of volunteers, but totally transparent with discussions on mailing lists and phone conferences. A lot of the members are IT freelancers (mostly Java EE developers). Resellers are also welcome. Currently there are about 200 members.

Based in Germany, but open to anyone in Europe. The webpages are currently only available in German, but that doesn't mean that people who speak a different language aren't welcome. It's just that noone has found the time yet to translate everything.

Re: Ask HN: What do you use to host your Personal Site?

#6

Post by davidcrow » Fri, Jul 08, 2011, 7:00 PM UTC

Dreamhost

Re: Ask HN: What do you use to host your Personal Site?

#7

Post by brianritchie » Fri, Jul 08, 2011, 7:04 PM UTC

Heroku for Jekyll.

Re: Ask HN: What do you use to host your Personal Site?

#8

Post by nico_h » Fri, Jul 08, 2011, 7:13 PM UTC

I use nearlyFreeSpeech.net, a simple and very cheap webhost: billed by the cent, and 10$ lasted me years. For the software, I wrote my own blog 'engine'(s).

Just started using ___.sh: a 42 lines, recursive, multimarkdown, sed & bash static html blog 'engine'. (http://github.com/nicolasH/frankensteins). I have the sources for my posts in three places : my computer, github and the web host.

I host these two sites there : http://www.niconomicon.net http://www.displayator.com

Re: Ask HN: What do you use to host your Personal Site?

#9

Post by swanson » Fri, Jul 08, 2011, 7:28 PM UTC

charliepark wrote: post #3

tl;dr: Github Pages, using Jekyll Recently, I wanted to start writing occasional posts, and wanted to split my original content off of my Tumblr (which I'd use to post "things I've found online that I like"). I played around with Jekyll and Github's hosted space, where they run Github Pages, and have been really happy with it.

I do the same; I also like that it is tightly coupled to my github account, so my code and writings about code are all in the same place.

Re: Ask HN: What do you use to host your Personal Site?

#10

Post by kgutteridge » Fri, Jul 08, 2011, 7:32 PM UTC

slicehost here, though have used bluehost for a pure out and out blog before that I didn't have any need to access the shell