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Own your presence on the web, don't be a sharecropper on Medium (or Blogger.com, or Wordpress.com, or any other plantation). I used to run my own Wordpress blo
by fmajid 4y ago
Own your presence on the web, don't be a sharecropper on Medium (or Blogger.com, or Wordpress.com, or any other plantation).
I used to run my own Wordpress blog (don't recommend it any more because of the security issues), now it's a Hugo blog hosted on AWS Cloudfront. Costs me about $4 to $5 a month to run.
- prepend 4y agoWith a Hugo blog there’s lots of hosting options. You can host on GitHub for free (paying for your own domain). I’ve been using the same random cpanel host for $30/year that has unlimited domains and sites. It’s not trivial but was painless to set up. I think it’s kind of fun to see the various setups that devs use to host their stuff. Medium isn’t a long term solution, so aside from its other problems (terrible aesthetic and UX), I’d still want some sustainability for hosting.
- fmajid 4y agoCloudFlare Pages is also free, although I've had no luck getting the SSL certificate part of it working. Plus I am not sure I want to support CloudFlare with its expanding grip on the web, like forcing users with cookie-blockers or VPNs to go through intrusive CAPTCHAs to access sites.