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Why are you paying for blogs, ostensibly static content, at all? Vercel and Netlify are both basically free for both. I use Hetzner too, but only for applicatio
by satvikpendem 2y ago
Why are you paying for blogs, ostensibly static content, at all? Vercel and Netlify are both basically free for both. I use Hetzner too, but only for application services, not static content.
- shinryuu 2y agoOP is running Ghost, which is an application. Of course OP could have chosen to use a static site generator but didn't in this case.
- satvikpendem 2y agoI'm curious why they chose Ghost when Markdown works just as well, and either way, I believe Ghost can still work via Vercel etc.
- 999900000999 2y agoI like Ghost. I took my monthly costs down from 30$ to 4$ HN tells me I'm still wasting money. I expect nothing less. Ghost is much easier to use than editing and commiting markdown files. I'm also able to create posts programmatically via an API. I guess this could all be done with Markdown too, but it would make things harder.
- satvikpendem 2y agoI used to use Ghost, so don't discount me as some "HN commenter." I switched to Markdown not for the cost but for the portability. It simply seemed easier to edit Markdown than to go into Ghost's editor for basically the same thing.
- 999900000999 2y agoSo I assume you edit markdown locally and then commit the files to Git which automatically builds into a static website? I'm doing certain things with the Ghost API that I don't think I can really replace with that.
- satvikpendem 2y agoYes I am. What are you doing with the Ghost API?
- 999900000999 2y agoI automate the creation of certain posts. Ultimately your not wrong, but I think Ghost is a great platform. If anything I like creating tools that I can share with others. If I want to invite friends to post on my blogs it'll take 30 seconds to provide a login and creating posts is very easy with Ghost. Getting non technical people to understand Git is a massive challenge I don't want to try again.
- satvikpendem 2y agoI see. Personally I don't let others write on my blog so I don't have the same use cases as you. If I had to, I'd ask them to just send me the Markdown file or text itself and I'd submit it via git myself.
- 999900000999 2y agoI'm always open to learning. Do you have any code to share which automates turning markdown to a blog site?
- satvikpendem 2y agoSearch for static site generators, there are many. Some of the famous ones are Jekyll, Hugo, etc, but I personally use NextJS with MDX: https://nextjs.org/docs/pages/building-your-application/configuring/mdx https://nextjs.org/docs/pages/building-your-application/conf...
- satvikpendem 2y agoI just saw this on Show HN, might be exactly what you're looking for: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41976673 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41976673
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- ipaddr 2y agoVercel costs become too costly once you get serious traffic. Plus a server allows you to do many things while hosting static content.
- satvikpendem 2y agoFor static content? Vercel, Cloudflare etc are extremely cheap for that, even free even for large traffic loads, but yes a server allows other things than static content.