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Ask HN: What tech stack do you use for your blog?
Hi y'all,
There are quite a few blogging solutions out there. My original blog uses a self hosted version of Ghost on a DigitalOcean droplet for about $5 a month. It has served me well. I am looking to start another personal blog, less focussed on technology. What are the tech stacks you'd use today for a blog?
A few options I have considered:
* Ghost: Known for its simplicity and focus on content creation.
* WordPress: A versatile choice with a vast ecosystem of themes and plugins.
* Jekyll: Great for static sites, often combined with GitHub Pages.
* Running on Vercel: For modern frontend frameworks and Jamstack architecture.
Would love to hear if I am missing any great options.
- KomoD 3y agoI used to use Ghost as well, very pleasant experience. If you like it I see no reason to use anything else, especially if you're already used to it.
- BirAdam 3y agoI wrote a few bash CGI scripts. With those in place, I just toss my markdown files into a posts/ directory and they become entries. Then, there are just 3 limitations. The title starts with #, the date starts with ##, and those must be the first two lines of text. Then, anywhere in the document a line that starts with "tags: " contains tags that are separated with a space. It works for me.
- sklarsa 3y agoZola, GitHub and Netlify. Easy and free
- reacharavindh 3y agoMaterial for Mkdocs Https://aravindh.net
- bediger4000 3y agohugo (Mainroad theme), github, vim, gimp, imagemagick, Apache httpd, CentOS on a VPS, a little PHP. Hugo was trickier than I wanted to get correct. I avoided WordPress because I ran a WordPress honeypot for a while, and holy cow, do people go after WordPress sites hard.
- bojanvidanovic 3y agoI experimented with many stacks, but I'm sticking to: Hugo, TinaCMS, Tailwind, Stimulusjs, and Turbojs, all hosted on Cloudflare Pages. website: https://bojanvidanovic.com https://bojanvidanovic.com
- XCSme 3y agoI made my own blog that just displays Markdown using PHP/Apache: https://github.com/Cristy94/markdown-blog https://github.com/Cristy94/markdown-blog