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Github.io is a surprisingly good option. Gitlab.io if you like gitlab better. Substack seems pretty popular and not terrible. Edit: Apparently a bad idea: Dev

by gpm 5y ago

Github.io is a surprisingly good option. Gitlab.io if you like gitlab better. Substack seems pretty popular and not terrible. Edit: Apparently a bad idea: Dev.to seems to be fairly decent, and maybe more like medium. Hosting your own static site via netlify (or similar services) is only the cost of a domain name. Hosting your own vps-based site on gcp is also only the price of a domain name, and if you put the also free cloudflare in front of it, it scales well, but this route does mean a lot more maintenance than any of the options above.

eyelidlessness 5y ago
Dev.to is banned by HN so that’s limiting.
- arvinsim 5y ago
  This is definitely news to me. Why?
  - detaro 5y ago
    I'd guess due to too many low quality or spammy submissions from there.
  - eyelidlessness 5y ago
    The other answer is apparently the reason. It’s a shame, too, because it flags people as self-promoting even if they’re posting interesting articles that have no self promotion at all.
  - kjakm 5y ago
    Have a scan through the homepage. I often find the same few people posting broad questions over and over again to generate engagement. On top of that I feel most of the article titles tend to be click bait. I have come across one or two really good articles but they are very much the exception.
  - pier25 5y ago
    I asked this same question last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27108910 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27108910
yarcob 5y ago
If you host a static blog I don't think you don't need cloudflare.
- viraptor 5y ago
  If your data is metered, is a good idea for peace of mind. Otherwise you risk someone dosing you and getting a large bill. That applies to both static or dynamic content.
  - yarcob 5y ago
    Could you explain how that would work? I thought DOS generally worked by overloading a host with mostly invalid incoming packets. Are DOS attacks that cause lots of outgoing bandwidth common? And wouldn't launching such a DOS attack be somewhat expensive in the first place? Also, I don't think any of the hosting companies I use have metered bandwidth. I assume that if I used excessive bandwidth I'd just end up saturating the network, but for a blog with mostly text and a few images that shouldn't be an issue.
    - viraptor 5y ago
      > I thought DOS generally worked by overloading a host with mostly invalid incoming packets. It's any traffic. It can be invalid packets if that's effective, but it can also be complete http requests. > Are DOS attacks that cause lots of outgoing bandwidth common? They're commonly about saturating the incoming bandwidth. But there's nothing wrong with more outgoing traffic if someone wants to hit you that way. > And wouldn't launching such a DOS attack be somewhat expensive in the first place? Not if you're using other people's hacked endpoints. (Which is pretty much the default these days) If you use a service with just a data cap, that's fine. I commented with AWS / GCP / others in mind.
    - detaro 5y ago
      As example: The comment above explicitly mentioned using GCP. GCPs "free" tier includes a whopping 1 GB of free traffic each month, everything over that is individually billed. (Arguably the correct answer is "don't use cloud hosts for such things, their bandwidth is stupidly overpriced for this use case", not "use a CDN to mitigate that")

by gpm 5y ago

eyelidlessness 5y ago

Dev.to is banned by HN so that’s limiting.

arvinsim 5y ago
This is definitely news to me. Why?
- detaro 5y ago
  I'd guess due to too many low quality or spammy submissions from there.
- eyelidlessness 5y ago
  The other answer is apparently the reason. It’s a shame, too, because it flags people as self-promoting even if they’re posting interesting articles that have no self promotion at all.
- kjakm 5y ago
  Have a scan through the homepage. I often find the same few people posting broad questions over and over again to generate engagement. On top of that I feel most of the article titles tend to be click bait. I have come across one or two really good articles but they are very much the exception.
- pier25 5y ago
  I asked this same question last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27108910 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27108910

yarcob 5y ago

If you host a static blog I don't think you don't need cloudflare.

viraptor 5y ago
If your data is metered, is a good idea for peace of mind. Otherwise you risk someone dosing you and getting a large bill. That applies to both static or dynamic content.
- yarcob 5y ago
  Could you explain how that would work? I thought DOS generally worked by overloading a host with mostly invalid incoming packets. Are DOS attacks that cause lots of outgoing bandwidth common? And wouldn't launching such a DOS attack be somewhat expensive in the first place? Also, I don't think any of the hosting companies I use have metered bandwidth. I assume that if I used excessive bandwidth I'd just end up saturating the network, but for a blog with mostly text and a few images that shouldn't be an issue.
  - viraptor 5y ago
    > I thought DOS generally worked by overloading a host with mostly invalid incoming packets. It's any traffic. It can be invalid packets if that's effective, but it can also be complete http requests. > Are DOS attacks that cause lots of outgoing bandwidth common? They're commonly about saturating the incoming bandwidth. But there's nothing wrong with more outgoing traffic if someone wants to hit you that way. > And wouldn't launching such a DOS attack be somewhat expensive in the first place? Not if you're using other people's hacked endpoints. (Which is pretty much the default these days) If you use a service with just a data cap, that's fine. I commented with AWS / GCP / others in mind.
  - detaro 5y ago
    As example: The comment above explicitly mentioned using GCP. GCPs "free" tier includes a whopping 1 GB of free traffic each month, everything over that is individually billed. (Arguably the correct answer is "don't use cloud hosts for such things, their bandwidth is stupidly overpriced for this use case", not "use a CDN to mitigate that")