Hosting: depends what you're comfortable with. I'm using a FreeBSD jail with nginx. Some others have a specific docker image that runs on whatever Linux they li

Hosting: depends what you're comfortable with. I'm using a FreeBSD jail with nginx. Some others have a specific docker image that runs on whatever Linux they like. Maintenance: pretty much zero, that's the point of static pages. https://acme.sh https://acme.sh for the TLS cert, and you're good to go. Comments: use third party tools that are designed for that? such as Twitter, HN, Reddit? Themes: http://jekyllthemes.org/ http://jekyllthemes.org/ Media: depends on your server. Maybe a CDN (cloudflare?) could help. I only publish SVG images on my blog, so ATM this isn't something I looked into. SEO: I don't care much about that. (https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/; https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/; https://ssllabs.com; https://ssllabs.com; etc.) Others: accessibility (colors -- my blog sucks in this regard), semantic web, RSS feed