Recently moved to Wordpress from Tumblr, but I'm very interested in something like Hexo where I can host the server myself and just push new webpages online, which would also definitely teach me more about the web.
Went back to GitHub Pages. Went back to Wordpress.com. Ghost just doesn't compare to Wordpress, even still, when it comes to installation and integration with an existing Express.js app is a joke.
Docpad (Node.js/Coffee Script), generated on Travis CI and published to Github pages.. but I don't blog very often. Mostly I use it to keep my portfolio up to date.
I might do something different if I were starting from scratch today, but it's worked well enough so far.
Poet[1], a simple node blog generator which plugged pretty nicely into my existing node personal website. I did a quick write-up of the process of using it.[2]
A custom static site generator written in Go. It's tailored to me and has been written in various different languages over the years. Can't bring myself to stop using it :-)
Right, that one is a bit more tricky. What I've done there is use Cloudflare's services.
Have the CNAME handled by Cloudflare and have it go through their network. Then add a Page Rule that redirects http to https once you've activated their SSL/TLS feature. You can do all of it using their free services.
I use Ghost on Digital Ocean with a $5 VM. The writing interface is very clean and simple. Plus it's very nice to write in Markdown and see an unstyled real-time preview of the content. Ghost fulfills everything I'm looking for in a blogging platform. It is also pretty easy to write your own theme.
same here for personal blog. But for professional blog, I feel that WordPress works better because I end up needing some of the extra functionality that WordPress plugins provide.
Same - I might use a static site generator, but my wife wanted a blog with an in-browser editor, and since it's very easy to host multiple Ghost blogs on a single server with some nginx configuration, I decided to just go with that for my own as well.
Works well since neither of them are very high traffic.
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[ 6.4 ms ] story [ 290 ms ] threadBlog: http://prakhar.me Repo: https://github.com/prakhar1989/hugo-blog
or Jekyll on S3
https://github.com/syegulalp/MeTal/
(Been dormant as I've been busy with other things, but making slow progress)
I might do something different if I were starting from scratch today, but it's worked well enough so far.
Medium for updates on my latest project: https://medium.com/septa-stats
And Jekyll on GitHub pages for a side project I did awhile ago: http://www.allaboutcheetahs.info/
The reasons behind these:
- Drupal: My website used to have a lot of static content, and I wanted to keep the content there while writing blog posts going forward
- Medium: There's a lot of people on it already, and I really like the interface
- Jekyll: I wanted to learn a static site generator as well as brush up on my CSS. (and the world needs more websites about cheetahs, tbh)
[1] http://jsantell.github.io/poet/
[2] https://tomjwatson.com/blog/using-poet-as-a-blog-generator
https://bitbucket.org/zaphar/gost/
I don't advertise or market it though so it's not what I would call ready for public consumption at all.
If you use an extension like HTTP Anywhere it'll pick up on that and use https.
Have the CNAME handled by Cloudflare and have it go through their network. Then add a Page Rule that redirects http to https once you've activated their SSL/TLS feature. You can do all of it using their free services.
Works well since neither of them are very high traffic.
https://github.com/alexanderteinum/simple-website