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Look at static blog generators (hugo, jekyll) + s3 + cloudfront. You don't pay unless you have traffic.
by darkstar999 10y ago
Look at static blog generators (hugo, jekyll) + s3 + cloudfront. You don't pay unless you have traffic.
- naragon 10y agoAlong these lines, I'm trying Github pages with Jekyll; works for me.
- Zazezizozuzy 10y agoI'm going to second this, especially for a tech blog. I sent one up in January. Despite not spending much time on it so far, there were a couple things I've already gathered from it. First, is basic Git functionality. Without having much experience with remote repos, it provided me a good opportunity to try things out without being able to break too much. I essentially write up posts locally, then push them to a GitHub repo. Super simple. Second is Linux and SSH. I have local repos on a Linux machine at home. I can SSH into the machine, write up a post, then push it out. I had very little knowledge of Linux and SSH prior. It's been pretty helpful. The biggest thing I think it offers is convenience. I have a very simple way of writing posts, no matter where I am. It's pushed me to learn new systems (ones that a lot of people are already familiar with) and it allows for a simple means of fixing things (through GitHub's interface) in case I do break anything.
- PuffinBlue 10y agoStatic generators are what I'd recommend (my preferences are Hugo and Nikola) but instead of s3/cloudfront I use Netlify to deploy. I've commented about Netlify before but they really are pretty great. The free tier is enough for a personal blog. I've also used GitLab pages, but their integrated CI can be pretty slow (sometimes taking several hours to run) and I got frustrated with that, but they're a solid choice when not having those issues.