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My biggest problem so far is with cost. I dont like recurring fees. I could pay a one-time fee for say 100 pages and last an eternality ( or 50 years or somethi
by ksec 11mo ago
My biggest problem so far is with cost. I dont like recurring fees. I could pay a one-time fee for say 100 pages and last an eternality ( or 50 years or something ). I also dont like subscription, and it has nothing to do with subscription fatigue, it is just the way I manage my money since before Youtube or Netflix took off.
And so far I haven't seen any viable options. And right now I use HN comments as more like a blog post.
- jjude 11mo agoI blog using 11ty and host with netlify. No cost. There are gitlab pages, github pages and so many different options to blog for free.
- jszymborski 11mo agoCodeberg or GitHub pages are free. For static website hosting, NearlyFreeSpeech.NET is... well... nearly free. https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/services/pricing https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/services/pricing
- tinix 11mo agosdf is great! https://sdf.org/?faq?WEB https://sdf.org/?faq?WEB
- thombles 11mo agoHTTPS ain’t cheap though.
- seszett 11mo agoWhat do you mean? I don't think HTTPS is a paying feature of sdf, and HTTPS is otherwise free thanks to let's encrypt.
- thombles 11mo agoMetaARPA tier membership (quarterly fee) is required to have HTTPS on your personal website - personal sites hosted on the main BSD cluster don’t have it.
- brabel 11mo agoNetlify is also a good free option for non techies since you can just drag a directory to deploy it. I’ve also used Cloudfare Pages.
- jjgreen 11mo agoLikewise for GitLab, and a "nice" url <username>.gitlab.io
- simonw 11mo agoGitHub Pages gives you a neat URL - yourname.github.io - and is free forever and even lets you run GitHub Actions for free to operate a static site builder.
- runningmike 11mo ago“Free” is not free. The dependency on MS should be evaluated for you as user and for your visitors ..
- ghaff 11mo agoThere are always dependencies to various degrees.
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- kistu_ 11mo agoYou could publish it as an onion service! Apart from keeping your computer running and an active internet connection, there isn't any other recurring cost.
- al_borland 11mo agoI recently setup a little blog on tilde.club. They had a built I blogging tool in the CLI, but I wasn’t a huge fan. It gives some hosting space as well and supports php, so I vibe coded a little something that lets me throw markdown files with a date as the file name into a folder. Once created, it posts to the blog. Right now it’s just one long running page (and individual posts can be viewed/linked). I’m debating between adding an archive or just only showing a certain number of posts and letting them age out (unless linking to the specific post). I also have php generating an RSS feed based on the markdown files, so they just works without any fuss. Of course my biggest issue is that I have started and deleted more blogs than I can count, so I don’t have any useful history, like I would if I would have stuck with one thing for the last 20 years.
- kukkeliskuu 11mo agoI use GitHub Pages for personal blogs. Connect it with your personal domain name in case later you want to run it somewhere else.
- mrec 11mo agoI do this too (not the personal domain bit) but one thing to be aware of is that Google doesn't seem to index these sites unless you feed it each URL manually. Doesn't autodiscover, doesn't read a submitted sitemap. Not a showstopper for me since I don't expect anyone to be interested anyway, but might be for some.
- graemep 11mo agoGiven the tiny cost of running a blog, especially if you have a domain name, is it worth the saving? Its not even much work if you use a static site builder.
- kukkeliskuu 11mo agoReliability? It took me around 15 minutes to create a site with Claude Code using GitHub Pages with custom domain and somebody else is taking care that it is always running. What is the alternative?
- graemep 11mo agoShared hosting still exists which means someone else will take care of a static site very cheap. You could use Claude, or you could use one of many static site builders.
- kukkeliskuu 11mo agoMy feeling about GitHub Pages is that it is not unreasonable just to forget about the site. For any cheap shared hosting I would psychologically feel the need to monitor the site somehow, periodically check that the credit card works etc. For me, there is a large relative (percentual) difference in the perceived cognitive load. Perhaps not a huge actual difference, but when you are running tens of projects, everything counts. Now I am not talking about actual reality but the psychological effect. It might be that some shared hosting site is in fact more reliable than GitHub Pages. Obviously, a blog that you just forget is not that useful, but last site I created using this method was an advertisement site for a book. I have several blogs where I write occasionally.
- nathias 11mo agoI have supabase for data and cloudflare for hosting, its all free
- efilife 11mo agoneocities is free
- walterbell 11mo agoneocities works well with static site generators, which can be run locally or elsewhere in the cloud
- bell-cot 11mo agoIsn't Wordpress hosting still free, at [something_unique].wordpress.com? Biggest downside I know of: Wordpress is too much learning curve & overhead for a simple personal blog.
- ksec 11mo agoThank You! This lead to me login and rediscover I actually had a blog 15 years ago. The thing that stopped me was much like what you said, learning curve and too much friction. Right now I have bearblog, mataroa.blog and nicheless, all with their own strength and flaws.
- ghaff 11mo ago>Biggest downside I know of: Wordpress is too much learning curve & overhead for a simple personal blog. That was the conclusion I came to when I was muddling through various options last year. I had a Blogger blog already and decided to just roll in whatever professional content I wanted to add, which was the right solution for me. It helped that various folks I knew didn't bother having hard boundaries behind personal and professional content and that worked for me as well.
- flpm 11mo agoIn Digital Ocean you can host up to 3 static sites for free, includes HTTPS, your own domain names and automatic deployment from GitHub repos. Look for their "app platform" https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-deploy-a-static-website-to-the-cloud-with-digitalocean-app-platform https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-depl...
- ghaff 11mo agoBelieve it or not, Blogger still exists and is free. I did some research when I was looking to spin up a blog for professional purposes. I ended up just rolling it into my personal blog though, for various reasons, I haven't done a lot with it yet. Project for the new year. You can hate on Google all you like but it hasn't been killed by Google yet and has been a long time--and is simple, adequate, and free even if it doesn't handle all the more advanced use cases.
- philip1209 11mo agoOr put a Mac mini in your living room: https://www.contraption.co/a-mini-data-center/ https://www.contraption.co/a-mini-data-center/