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Any solid alternatives HN could recommend?

wyck 14y ago
Jekyll with https://github.com/bhollis/maruku https://github.com/bhollis/maruku for markdown on steroids.
jbail 14y ago
Wordpress. That might sound obvious, but it works and it's easy to setup. I left Posterous after they launched Spaces and went back to hosting my own Wordpress install. I host about 20 low traffic sites on a single Bluehost.com shared server that costs under $100 per year. Never had any issues. One click Wordpress install via SimpleScripts. It really doesn't get any easier.
- ahoyhere 14y ago
  Seconded. My first regularly updated site in 96 was updated by hand; then I created a daily news site that was custom-roll; then I moved to Movable Type; then I custom-rolled again; somewhere in there I tried Drupal (for a year or so, not just a dalliance); then I used whatever RoR blogging engine was popular; then I got real and moved to Wordpress several years ago and haven't regretted it for more than a couple seconds, here and there. And those seconds of regret were more than made up for by the lack of crap I had to do myself. (And, naturally, nobody can shut MY wordpress blog down since I ran it on my own server and now WPEngine.)
- sbierwagen 14y ago
  http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=wordpress http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=wordpress
  - mkr-hn 14y ago
    Ctrl+F, type plugin
    - sbierwagen 14y ago
      http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=php http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=php
      - mkr-hn 14y ago
        A quick skim shows a lot of applications that use PHP and some libraries available with or for PHP. What does this have to do with WordPress?
- rscale 14y ago
  I did the same after the acquisition was first announced. It took about an hour to get it running, and fully monitored by my Nagios installation.
- pjmlp 14y ago
  I am using my own web site since the late 90's, never repented it. Hosting companies come and go, do whatever they please with your data. Nothing like having as much control as possible. Sadly this is not possible for non-technical users.
mikec3k 14y ago
According to that blog post, WordPress & SquareSpace have importers.
bsg75 14y ago
Scriptogr.am
liangzan 14y ago
octopress on github pages
masnick 14y ago
I wrote about different ways to set up a reliable blog about a year ago. The post is still relevant, except I'd add SquareSpace as a good option and obviously remove the part about Posterous. See http://www.maxmasnick.com/articles/bulletproof_your_blog http://www.maxmasnick.com/articles/bulletproof_your_blog
feint 14y ago
Not really a direct alternative as it's only for single posts, but I better plug Pen.io
garry 14y ago
Posthaven. If you liked Posterous, I promise you will like Posthaven. I was one of the cofounders of Posterous and wrote much of the site. Brett joined us as a cofounder and we really enjoyed working on it. The difference this time is that we'll be 100% sustainable, and we are pledging to keep the site online forever. It's just me and Brett coding it right now. http://posthaven.com http://posthaven.com
- swilliams 14y ago
  Getting a 503 Service Unavailable.
- joedev 14y ago
  "Electric word life, it means 4ever and that's a mighty long time" Forever is longer than a lifetime and we've seen how well just simple "lifetime" hosting promises go.
- ukd1 14y ago
  I'm moving here, looks awesome and love what Garry's doing with it :-)
- MatthewPhillips 14y ago
  Does it have posting by email like Posterous?
- jveg 14y ago
  I paid the $5. You better not disappoint, Garry! :)
- deleted 14y ago
  [deleted]
pekk 14y ago
Use a static site generator and then deploy to any low-cost static host (e.g., CloudFront). Odds are that you really don't need a dynamic backend when you can just deploy new static files for each update.
djloche 14y ago
http://everyone.me/ http://everyone.me/ - utilizes dropbox
- moioci 14y ago
  requires $5 per month subscription.
drgolden 14y ago
nwzPaper

wyck 14y ago

Jekyll with https://github.com/bhollis/maruku https://github.com/bhollis/maruku for markdown on steroids.

jbail 14y ago

Wordpress. That might sound obvious, but it works and it's easy to setup. I left Posterous after they launched Spaces and went back to hosting my own Wordpress install. I host about 20 low traffic sites on a single Bluehost.com shared server that costs under $100 per year. Never had any issues. One click Wordpress install via SimpleScripts. It really doesn't get any easier.

ahoyhere 14y ago
Seconded. My first regularly updated site in 96 was updated by hand; then I created a daily news site that was custom-roll; then I moved to Movable Type; then I custom-rolled again; somewhere in there I tried Drupal (for a year or so, not just a dalliance); then I used whatever RoR blogging engine was popular; then I got real and moved to Wordpress several years ago and haven't regretted it for more than a couple seconds, here and there. And those seconds of regret were more than made up for by the lack of crap I had to do myself. (And, naturally, nobody can shut MY wordpress blog down since I ran it on my own server and now WPEngine.)
sbierwagen 14y ago
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=wordpress http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=wordpress
- mkr-hn 14y ago
  Ctrl+F, type plugin
  - sbierwagen 14y ago
    http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=php http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=php
    - mkr-hn 14y ago
      A quick skim shows a lot of applications that use PHP and some libraries available with or for PHP. What does this have to do with WordPress?
rscale 14y ago
I did the same after the acquisition was first announced. It took about an hour to get it running, and fully monitored by my Nagios installation.
pjmlp 14y ago
I am using my own web site since the late 90's, never repented it. Hosting companies come and go, do whatever they please with your data. Nothing like having as much control as possible. Sadly this is not possible for non-technical users.

mikec3k 14y ago

According to that blog post, WordPress & SquareSpace have importers.

bsg75 14y ago

Scriptogr.am

liangzan 14y ago

octopress on github pages

masnick 14y ago

I wrote about different ways to set up a reliable blog about a year ago. The post is still relevant, except I'd add SquareSpace as a good option and obviously remove the part about Posterous. See http://www.maxmasnick.com/articles/bulletproof_your_blog http://www.maxmasnick.com/articles/bulletproof_your_blog

feint 14y ago

Not really a direct alternative as it's only for single posts, but I better plug Pen.io

garry 14y ago

Posthaven. If you liked Posterous, I promise you will like Posthaven. I was one of the cofounders of Posterous and wrote much of the site. Brett joined us as a cofounder and we really enjoyed working on it. The difference this time is that we'll be 100% sustainable, and we are pledging to keep the site online forever. It's just me and Brett coding it right now. http://posthaven.com http://posthaven.com

swilliams 14y ago
Getting a 503 Service Unavailable.
joedev 14y ago
"Electric word life, it means 4ever and that's a mighty long time" Forever is longer than a lifetime and we've seen how well just simple "lifetime" hosting promises go.
ukd1 14y ago
I'm moving here, looks awesome and love what Garry's doing with it :-)
MatthewPhillips 14y ago
Does it have posting by email like Posterous?
jveg 14y ago
I paid the $5. You better not disappoint, Garry! :)
deleted 14y ago
[deleted]

pekk 14y ago

Use a static site generator and then deploy to any low-cost static host (e.g., CloudFront). Odds are that you really don't need a dynamic backend when you can just deploy new static files for each update.

djloche 14y ago

http://everyone.me/ http://everyone.me/ - utilizes dropbox

moioci 14y ago
requires $5 per month subscription.

drgolden 14y ago

nwzPaper