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Ask HN: What's your blogging platform?

9 points by rukshn 13y ago

There are so many new blogging platforms. What's the platform you're using? Do you still use blogger? Or use a newer platform? Is it self hosted or hosted by the blogging service?

deepak56 13y ago
I was going to start on Ghost but then just used Medium. Curious to know why people would choose Ghost over Medium considering that you will have to host that yourself?
- alexgaribay 13y ago
  Ghost will have a hosted solution similar to Wordpress where Ghost will host it.
factorialboy 13y ago
Custom, built with Scala, deployed on Heroku. Posts written in Markdown. Linked in my profile. Code hosted on Github (public).
rurounijones 13y ago
Octopress + github pages.
k__ 13y ago
I build one myself. Liked the workflow in some PHP blogging software, but didn't want to have PHP on my server and the node.js blogs (before ghost) were unusable compile-to-static-html crapware or tutorials on learning node.js while building your own blog haha...
pkhamre 13y ago
Self-hosted Octopress[1], but I'm working in migrating to Ghost. [1]: http://octopress.org/ http://octopress.org/
Andrenid 13y ago
Self hosted WordPress. Manage a few dozen of them so keep my own the same to keep things simple. Definitely want to play with Ghost soon though.
meerita 13y ago
Jekyll.
pjvds 13y ago
Jekyll, hosted on AmazonS3 and auto deployed by wercker: http://born2code.net/blog/2013/05/27/simplify-your-jekyll-publishing-process-with-wercker/ http://born2code.net/blog/2013/05/27/simplify-your-jekyll-pu...
rk0567 13y ago
Wordpress and jekyll.
dirktheman 13y ago
I switched from wordpress to Jekyll on AWS S3 last year: http://www.dirktheman.com/tech/2013/05/12/i-switched-my-blog-from-wordpress-to-jekyll.html http://www.dirktheman.com/tech/2013/05/12/i-switched-my-blog...
pastylegs 13y ago
Jekyll
thenomad 13y ago
Managed Wordpress with WP-Engine. It's more expensive than self-hosted but it saves me days in not-having-to-fuck-with-my-server time. ( I wrote about this in some depth a while ago: http://www.mmomeltingpot.com/2012/03/wpengine-review-after-1-month-and-250k-visitors-is-this-the-best-wordpress-hosting-money-can-buy/ http://www.mmomeltingpot.com/2012/03/wpengine-review-after-1... ) Why Wordpress? Mostly for the It Just Works factor. I've done my time in the CMS trenches - I've written my own several times back before there were any decent hosted solutions. Nowadays, if it's reasonably easy to use and not too slow I'm good with it. Plus, Wordpress has the advantage of an absolutely massive ecosystem around it, meaning that any features I want to add rarely require custom code, and usually just require a Google search. :)
etler 13y ago
Jekyll and GitHub pages. What can I say? I'm cheap.
rartichoke 13y ago
I use my own. I spent about 3 weeks making a nice one with rails. It took so long because I was learning rails and also ruby as I went. I use it over managed solutions because I've set it up to easily integrate into any site, it loads insanely fast and has a lot of modern features you would expect (split pane live preview with markdown, auto saving without creating a million drafts, user login to handle authors, etc.). Most managed solutions lack 1 or 2 important features in some way or another and that ruins the experience.
swanson 13y ago
Jekyll - GitHub Pages (w/ custom domain) - Lagom theme - GitHub issues for brainstorming ideas - No comment system It is free, super fast, works great for Markdown/plain-text editor. I never have to dick around with anything (security, caching plugins, spam, etc) - I can just write. And sometimes nice people send me pull requests to fix typos :) https://github.com/swanson/swanson.github.com https://github.com/swanson/swanson.github.com https://github.com/swanson/lagom https://github.com/swanson/lagom
anishkothari 13y ago
octopress on github pages with prose.io, cheap and effective
michaelmior 13y ago
Just switched to nanoc[1] deployed to GitHub pages via Travis. [1] http://nanoc.ws/ http://nanoc.ws/
austinbirch 13y ago
Jekyll, GitHub pages, and a custom domain. Using Markdown means no constraint on what software you use to edit your posts, which is really nice. Another advantage to using a static site generator is your blog will be (generally) fast to load, secure, and it will be really easy to find somewhere to host it for a low cost (or even for free).

9 points by rukshn 13y ago

There are so many new blogging platforms. What's the platform you're using? Do you still use blogger? Or use a newer platform? Is it self hosted or hosted by the blogging service?

deepak56 13y ago

I was going to start on Ghost but then just used Medium. Curious to know why people would choose Ghost over Medium considering that you will have to host that yourself?

alexgaribay 13y ago
Ghost will have a hosted solution similar to Wordpress where Ghost will host it.

factorialboy 13y ago

Custom, built with Scala, deployed on Heroku. Posts written in Markdown. Linked in my profile. Code hosted on Github (public).

rurounijones 13y ago

Octopress + github pages.

k__ 13y ago

I build one myself. Liked the workflow in some PHP blogging software, but didn't want to have PHP on my server and the node.js blogs (before ghost) were unusable compile-to-static-html crapware or tutorials on learning node.js while building your own blog haha...

pkhamre 13y ago

Self-hosted Octopress[1], but I'm working in migrating to Ghost. [1]: http://octopress.org/ http://octopress.org/

Andrenid 13y ago

Self hosted WordPress. Manage a few dozen of them so keep my own the same to keep things simple. Definitely want to play with Ghost soon though.

meerita 13y ago

Jekyll.

pjvds 13y ago

Jekyll, hosted on AmazonS3 and auto deployed by wercker: http://born2code.net/blog/2013/05/27/simplify-your-jekyll-publishing-process-with-wercker/ http://born2code.net/blog/2013/05/27/simplify-your-jekyll-pu...

rk0567 13y ago

Wordpress and jekyll.

dirktheman 13y ago

I switched from wordpress to Jekyll on AWS S3 last year: http://www.dirktheman.com/tech/2013/05/12/i-switched-my-blog-from-wordpress-to-jekyll.html http://www.dirktheman.com/tech/2013/05/12/i-switched-my-blog...

pastylegs 13y ago

Jekyll

thenomad 13y ago

Managed Wordpress with WP-Engine. It's more expensive than self-hosted but it saves me days in not-having-to-fuck-with-my-server time. ( I wrote about this in some depth a while ago: http://www.mmomeltingpot.com/2012/03/wpengine-review-after-1-month-and-250k-visitors-is-this-the-best-wordpress-hosting-money-can-buy/ http://www.mmomeltingpot.com/2012/03/wpengine-review-after-1... ) Why Wordpress? Mostly for the It Just Works factor. I've done my time in the CMS trenches - I've written my own several times back before there were any decent hosted solutions. Nowadays, if it's reasonably easy to use and not too slow I'm good with it. Plus, Wordpress has the advantage of an absolutely massive ecosystem around it, meaning that any features I want to add rarely require custom code, and usually just require a Google search. :)

etler 13y ago

Jekyll and GitHub pages. What can I say? I'm cheap.

rartichoke 13y ago

I use my own. I spent about 3 weeks making a nice one with rails. It took so long because I was learning rails and also ruby as I went. I use it over managed solutions because I've set it up to easily integrate into any site, it loads insanely fast and has a lot of modern features you would expect (split pane live preview with markdown, auto saving without creating a million drafts, user login to handle authors, etc.). Most managed solutions lack 1 or 2 important features in some way or another and that ruins the experience.

swanson 13y ago

Jekyll - GitHub Pages (w/ custom domain) - Lagom theme - GitHub issues for brainstorming ideas - No comment system It is free, super fast, works great for Markdown/plain-text editor. I never have to dick around with anything (security, caching plugins, spam, etc) - I can just write. And sometimes nice people send me pull requests to fix typos :) https://github.com/swanson/swanson.github.com https://github.com/swanson/swanson.github.com https://github.com/swanson/lagom https://github.com/swanson/lagom

anishkothari 13y ago

octopress on github pages with prose.io, cheap and effective

michaelmior 13y ago

Just switched to nanoc[1] deployed to GitHub pages via Travis. [1] http://nanoc.ws/ http://nanoc.ws/

austinbirch 13y ago

Jekyll, GitHub pages, and a custom domain. Using Markdown means no constraint on what software you use to edit your posts, which is really nice. Another advantage to using a static site generator is your blog will be (generally) fast to load, secure, and it will be really easy to find somewhere to host it for a low cost (or even for free).