Ask HN: Best Blogging Platform

Re:Ask HN: Best Blogging Platform by jamesponddotco on Sunday August 25, 2019 @09:37PM (#20796869)

While it doesn't seem very popular in Hacker News, I think WordPress [1] is an excellent platform for a blog. The community is terrific, there is a tremendous amount of documentation out there, and it is entirely customisable.

If you go with the managed hosting route, most companies handle security and updates for you, so you can focus on writing and leave everything technical to someone else.

I am working on one myself — and have a private beta running, if you are interested [2], —, but of the top of my head, some companies that will go above and beyond as far as WordPress is concerned, include Kinsta [3], Pantheon [4] and Presslabs [5]. The last one is based in Romania and open sourced a bunch of their stack, worth checking out.

[1] https://wordpress.org

[2] Just email me at [email protected] for information

[3] https://kinsta.com

[4] https://pantheon.io

[5] https://www.presslabs.com

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Re:Ask HN: Best Blogging Platform by non-entity on Monday August 26, 2019 @09:05AM (#20799528)

I think Wordpress is fine if you keep it maintained. I've just seen a ton of sites end up with malware, gaping security holes, etc. because the site owner didn't vet the plugins they were installing.

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Re:Ask HN: Best Blogging Platform by sneak on Monday August 26, 2019 @01:42PM (#20801966)

Wordpress falls over under an even modest amount of traffic without jumping through a bunch of caching plugin hoops, it’s written in PHP, it requires dynamic hosting, and it regularly has major security issues. It’s not good.

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Re:Ask HN: Best Blogging Platform by cweagans on Monday August 26, 2019 @04:21PM (#20803365)

IMO, the only reason that you gave that holds water here is that it requires dynamic hosting and that the resulting operational complexity just isn't worth it for a personal blog. Having to add caching plugins/config for a PHP CMS isn't out of the ordinary, being written in PHP is not in itself a negative point (modern PHP really doesn't suck).

I will never, ever, ever advocate for running Wordpress for much of anything, but I would also argue that any nontrivial piece of software has a fair number of security issues and that Wordpress vulnerabilities are particularly visible because of how widely used it is and the public-facing nature of the software.

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Re:Ask HN: Best Blogging Platform by mraudiobook_com on Sunday August 25, 2019 @10:45PM (#20797083)

What is the benefit of wordpress over hosting yourself?

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Re:Ask HN: Best Blogging Platform by chipotle_coyote on Sunday August 25, 2019 @11:12PM (#20797179)

The OP's footnote for WordPress linked to wordpress.org, which suggests they meant the self-hostable software.

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