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Coincidentally , this week, I made a post on how to setup your Ghost on AWS , including all the gotchas. https://twitter.com/craftfortress/status/6355555039056
by ionwake 11y ago
Coincidentally , this week, I made a post on how to setup your Ghost on AWS , including all the gotchas.
https://twitter.com/craftfortress/status/635555503905603585 https://twitter.com/craftfortress/status/635555503905603585
Unlike you (with respect to your opinion), I found it to be absolutely perfect. I am surprised they don't make more revenue.
EDIT> Just to add more information regarding how Ghost stacks up against other free alternatives for Blogging Coders:
Jekyll
I tried Jekyll with skeleton.
Very easy installation onto github, and the fact username.github.com automatically links to your blog is great. The downside is ofcourse you have to install a them for it to be usable, and perhaps for many , having your blog edits in your official github account, may not be perfect.
Medium
I also tried medium but I did not like:
1) The constant modals asking you to log in
2) The fact Medium posts are automatically negatively ranked by HN
- briandear 11y agoWhy is Medium negatively ranked?
- minimaxir 11y agoThe quality of Medium posts is highly variable, with posts trending toward the low-quality promotion-in-disguise articles. I think the auto-penalty has been toned down a bit though compared to when Medium first launched.
- trumbitta2 11y agoMy own blog, http://www.williamghelfi.com/ http://www.williamghelfi.com/ , is made with Jekyll and hosted on Divshot (not GitHub) Seamless, quick, developer-oriented. Perfect for me :D EDIT: http://docs.divshot.com/integrations/jekyll http://docs.divshot.com/integrations/jekyll
- ohitsdom 11y agoJust an FYI, you don't have to use Jekyll with github. The integration seems convenient, but I run it on its own to build my static site (blog) on my own domain.
- KAdot 11y agoYou can use your own domain with GitHub Pages https://help.github.com/articles/setting-up-a-custom-domain-with-github-pages/ https://help.github.com/articles/setting-up-a-custom-domain-....
- ohitsdom 11y agoWasn't suggesting otherwise, just trying to be clear that you can (and I do) use Jekyll on its own to build a site.
- r3bl 11y agoI'm using my own SSL-encrypted domain while still hosting Jekyll from a GitHub repository (well, actually, a couple of GitHub repositories, one for each subdomain): https://r3bl.me https://r3bl.me Setting a custom domain is as easy as adding a CNAME file that contains your domain (so, it'll have "r3bl.me" in my case) and changing CNAME records to point to your GitHub repository (or repositories). SSL support is kind of hacky, but I successfully implemented it using CloudFlare.
- joesmo 11y agoI've recently rolled a few sites using Jekyll and Github pages. I recommend creating a new Github account or Organization (I didn't mess around with those, but it should work the same) if you feel uncomfortable pushing your blog to yourUsername@github.io.