Ask HN: Do you still self-host a blog? What's your publishing stack?

Question says it all - I'm curious what the state of the art is for a community like HN (that, intuitively, wouldn't just start an eg. Substack).

My personal blog is -

https://rxjourney.com.ng

I self host because I love writing code. It's inspired by Medium. It was built with Django and Svelte. I could have written the whole thing with Django but I wanted to learn Svelte, and I had plans of making it bigger and more interactive initially.

It's hosted on Render.

3 days agoby chistev

My personal blog is http://brettcmullins.com

It is a static site using Jekyll and hosted on GitHub Pages. Although I'm not doing anything fancy, I'm surprised at how flexible Jekyll is when I try to add a feature.

22 hours agoby wannabebarista

It's hosted on a computer located inside my apartment. It used to be hosted on a cheap Synology NAS. No Cloudflare or CDN or anything like that, just a bare NGINX server.

The website itself is built on Jekyll, but I want to switch to something else because I don't use Ruby/Gem for anything else and I can't be bothered to commit that stack to memory just for that.

3 days agoby boricj

A lot of aggregators will also not allow your blog to be posted if it's on a newsletter site like Substack, Patreon, etc.

I use GitHub Pages for hosting, Porkbun for the domain, and Astro for the blog itself. EZPZ to manage and very straightforward, plus Astro's docs are great.

1 day agoby alp1n3_eth

Github pages: https://github.com/abid-personal/abid-personal.github.io -> makes -> https://omarabid.com

The static site is made with nextjs. This template: https://github.com/timlrx/tailwind-nextjs-starter-blog

3 days agoby csomar

I edit my posts in a self hosted Ghost site that I run on my laptop as needed and then I use Eleventy to translate that into a static website which gets pushed to Neocities.org via WebDAV (requires the $5 a month plan)

https://mat.tl/blog/2024/10/29/migrating-from-wordpress-com-...

3 days agoby mattl

Just nginx and static pre-compressed html and txt files. Publishing stack is my fingers and vim to get spell check. Backups are automated.

3 days agoby LinuxBender

Nikola to generate a static site and blog that I never bother updating because Mastodon is easier, and some shell scripts. The script that publishes the site creates a git repo, adds the static files and the remote host, force-pushes to origin and then gets deleted. It's as elegant as it is useless.

3 days agoby krapp

Static website written entirely in Emacs' org-mode with a slightly customized publish script that gets executed on a push to `main`. Hosted on GitHub Pages.

2 days agoby bvnierop

Hugo, s3 and CloudFront. I use GitHub actions to push to s3, that is my deployment pipeline.

3 days agoby lappet

https://lille-oe.de/

Jekyll on GitHub Pages with various actions to automate stuff like calculating mileage statistics.

Editing via the GitJournal app.

3 days agoby bergie

Hosted on GitHub Pages, built with React. For now I'm using nextjs, but a self-made static site generator is on the roadmap.

2 days agoby asukachikaru

I use a from-scratch python script that generates a bunch of html files which are pushed to GitHub pages

3 days agoby petabyt

Next.js with SSR, hosted for free with Vercel. I’ve used Jekyll, Django and Craft CMS in the past.

3 days agoby aosaigh

Astro hosted for free on Cloudflare Pages.

2 days agoby brokegrammer

Astro, netlify (in a process to move to a VPS), neovim

3 days agoby skwee357

Jekyll and nginx in Docker on Hetzner for €4.49/mo

3 days agoby ridiculous_fish

Jekyll s3 cloudfront

3 days agoby quintes

Ethereum.

3 days agoby throwaway519

Astro blog deployed on Github Pages.

VS Code for editing.

Points to Ponder

-> Use the basic Astro template for blogs. It is basically enough for a self-hosted blog needs. Using any of the third party themes/templates with a list of features has a bunch of disadvantages. It takes more effort to customize and upgrading to newer versions totally breaks the setup, sucking in hours of your time.

-> VS Code has plenty of Markdown Extensions. Markdown Preview and Frontend Masters come to mind.

3 days agoby sharmi