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We host our blog using solely off-the-shelf tools, and I love the stack that we use. I highly recommend it if you're looking for a stack with 100% control and a
by staysaasy 6y ago
We host our blog using solely off-the-shelf tools, and I love the stack that we use. I highly recommend it if you're looking for a stack with 100% control and are ok with some light technical wrangling (eg using Git):
- Jekyll for static site generation https://jekyllrb.com/ https://jekyllrb.com/
- We use the Hydeout Jekyll theme, you can see how it looks on our blog: http://staysaasy.com/ http://staysaasy.com/. What you see is out-of-the-box plus ~30 lines of custom CSS.
- Git for storing our content
- Gitlab for CI/CD and hosting
- GoDaddy for domain management
We manage all of the content in Git, and push it when it's ready. It's really easy. You can even run "code reviews" on posts if you like.
- MaxBarraclough 6y agoAll sounds good apart from GoDaddy. Why not use a more reputable registrar? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4362478 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4362478
- staysaasy 6y agoJust because it's what we already used. It's the most dispensable part of the stack (and arguably shouldn't even be considered part of our stack at all).
- MaxBarraclough 6y ago> arguably shouldn't even be considered part of our stack at all Why not? If your registrar screws you over, it's game over. It's a critical dependency.
- res0nat0r 6y agoFolks also seem to forget that an s3 bucket can host your static website, will cost mostly pennies and pretty much never go down. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/WebsiteHosting.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/WebsiteHosti...
- staysaasy 6y agoVery true. In the setup listed above we use Gitlab for hosting and it's 100% free with a fairly non-technical interface. If you're going for static hosting of raw pages Netlify has a folder drag&drop hosting option that's great as well.