Ask HN: Where to host a personal blog?

Posted by bribri on Wednesday January 14, 2015 @06:05PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I want to host a personal blog/resume/portfolio. Is the built in readership of blogging platforms like tumblr/medium/quora worth sacrificing some control over your blog? I have some web development experience so making and self hosting a blog isn't a problem, but I have no idea how hard it is to promote a self hosted blog. Does anyone have any experience with discovery/engagement of their self hosted blogs compared to blogs hosted on these platforms? (Perhaps someone who posts to both)

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Re:Ask HN: Where to host a personal blog? by DLion on Wednesday January 14, 2015 @06:26PM (#8889888)

Why not gh-pages ? It's free and you can customize everything you want. https://pages.github.com/ I use it to store my blog (made using jekyll)

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Re:Ask HN: Where to host a personal blog? by kgtm on Wednesday January 14, 2015 @06:48PM (#8890001)

That could work. And lack of immediate post/design previews can be taken care of with a simple Vagrant configuration to spin up a local Github Pages server directly from the repo. Like so: https://github.com/kappataumu/vagrant-up-github-pages

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Re:Ask HN: Where to host a personal blog? by aswerty on Thursday January 15, 2015 @03:25AM (#8891443)

GitHub pages and Pelican are what I use for hosting my blog. Now all I need is a tool to write articles for me...

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Re:Ask HN: Where to host a personal blog? by icpmacdo on Wednesday January 14, 2015 @11:02PM (#8890826)

I am setting one up right now for fun through digital ocean using following this tutorial[1] using node JS

http://howtonode.org/express-mongodb

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Re:Ask HN: Where to host a personal blog? by FlopV on Wednesday January 14, 2015 @09:51PM (#8890632)

I just use wordpress but if I wanted to get fancy and have something for the public, rather than just my self and close friends I'd say github pages.

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Re:Ask HN: Where to host a personal blog? by eatonphil on Wednesday January 14, 2015 @06:06PM (#8889777)

Bluehost is a really great host that isn't too expensive. It does all the wordpress setup for you. I find it extremely convenient.

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Re:Ask HN: Where to host a personal blog? by stevenspasbo on Thursday January 15, 2015 @05:08PM (#8895730)

I use jekyll and github pages, it's a pretty simple/quick way to set up a personal blog.

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Re:Ask HN: Where to host a personal blog? by KhalPanda on Thursday January 15, 2015 @04:27AM (#8891619)

I'd opt (well, I have...) for the cheapest Digital Ocean VPS running Ghost. Works great.

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Re:Ask HN: Where to host a personal blog? by eminkel on Thursday January 15, 2015 @04:27PM (#8895482)

I've done the same, it's very smooth.

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Re:Ask HN: Where to host a personal blog? by jordsmi on Wednesday January 14, 2015 @11:17PM (#8890858)

I enjoy jekyll on github pages.

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