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Ask HN: I need a blog engine, which will be around for 10-15 years
Hi All,
Desperately need help. I need to create a blog. My wife has taken my child. The idea, to document everything so when my child is 15-16 years old, she will be able to read each and every post I do for her. Which blog platform, do people fee has longevity, in this crazy Covid-19 ridden world of companies going bust daily?
- s_dev 7y agoWordpress or Ghost.
- moishtech 7y agoThank you. Looking for a hosted solution
- detaro 7y agoBoth are available hosted. But for a 15 year timeline, relying on any single offering staying available is risky. I would focus on portability, so you can move your content if necessary. That's where static generator etc shine if you are ok with their UX: they produce a bag of HTML files you can host anywhere (and don't require ongoing maintenance of a running server software somewhere)
- s_dev 7y agoThrow them up on an AWS EC2 instance -- Amazon have a good chance of being around for the next 100 years.
- kennydude 7y agoWordPress. It's open source, easy to use, hostable pretty much everywhere and you can easily export and move your content anywhere. I'm sure even if Automattic go bust, it'll continue
- probably_wrong 7y agoTechnical answer: if longevity is your priority, you need either to self-host everything or use a static blog generator. In the first case, you can install anything you want in your own server (Wordpress is always a good choice) and it will keep running as long as you pay your bills. For the second case (with something like Jekyll or Pelican), all you need is a website that hosts static files (namely, all of them) and if one goes down you simply re-upload somewhere else. There's yet another point to consider: is there a reason why it has to be a blog? If you intend to give it to your child, a Word document is all you need. Personal answer: I would encourage you not to blog in anger. I had to sort through a book written once by someone in pain for losing a child, and it was a very uncomfortable experience. I encourage to ask yourself "is this something that will make my child's life better, or is this something that will make my life better?". If it's the second, I would encourage you to still write it, but in a private diary rather than a public blog.
- Tomte 7y ago> There's yet another point to consider: is there a reason why it has to be a blog? If you intend to give it to your child, a Word document is all you need. It sounds to me that he has no part in the child's life, so he cannot give it to her, but must rely on her finding it on her own.
- moishtech 7y agoEither I will be able to show it to my child, or SEO her name so when she searches it one day, she will find it.
- Tomte 7y agoPosthaven (https://posthaven.com/ https://posthaven.com/) claims to be just that. Unfortunately, the founder was also a founder of Posterous, which was insanely cool back then and pretty much the same as Posthaven now, including the longevity claims. Posterous is no more. Still, they claim to mean it this time, and not take VC money, so it's worth a look.
- moishtech 7y agoThank you, I'll take a look
- viraptor 7y agoWhy do you need a platform? Get something that renders to a static site and stick the result in an object store with a domain attached. Or even just a html file with <p>contents</p>. Or even a txt.