Re:Ask HN: Is maintaining a personal blog still worth it in ...
by jpc0 on Thursday January 16, 2025 @04:35AM
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> Bear Blog has been built as a platform and not as an individual blog generator. It is more like Substack than Hugo. Due to this it isn't possible to individually self-host a Bear Blog.
Guessing the other is similar.
To be honest a single HTML file which is what I'm thinking of, I can grab a shared server from any of the old school hosting providers ans upload an HTML page... Or deploy staight to cloudflare/gcp/azure/aws just as easily.
Sure for some people that is a lot of work but I do a lot of devops/infra work and it will take me more time to write the HTML page than to deploy it on the web with SSL... To put it into perspective I already have a VPS with nginx infront if it...
Guessing the other is similar.
To be honest a single HTML file which is what I'm thinking of, I can grab a shared server from any of the old school hosting providers ans upload an HTML page... Or deploy staight to cloudflare/gcp/azure/aws just as easily.
Sure for some people that is a lot of work but I do a lot of devops/infra work and it will take me more time to write the HTML page than to deploy it on the web with SSL... To put it into perspective I already have a VPS with nginx infront if it...