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Ask HN: What do you use to host your Personal Site?

12 points by tikna ↗ HN
Just curious to know. I know tumblr and posterous are really good if you don't want spend time managing the hosting.

But otherwise, what do you use to host your personal pages/blogs. A shared host, or VPS, or any other alternative?

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timjahn
I use HostGator for my personal hosting and for various projects. As for my actual personal domain (timjahn.com), I recently switched it to direct to a simple flavors.me landing page.

I like the idea of people quickly getting a snapshot of me and my activities that way.

charliepark
tl;dr: Github Pages, using Jekyll

Recently, I wanted to start writing occasional posts, and wanted to split my original content off of my Tumblr (which I'd use to post "things I've found online that I like"). I played around with Jekyll and Github's hosted space, where they run Github Pages, and have been really happy with it.

swanson
I do the same; I also like that it is tightly coupled to my github account, so my code and writings about code are all in the same place.
jterce
I have that and about 12 sites on my Bluehost account.
blumentopf
https://www.hostsharing.net/

That's a co-operative, non-profit hosting provider. It works kind of like car sharing: Everyone pays a monthly fee, based on the resources he/she uses, and that is used to fund hardware, colocation costs, domain registration etc. Administration is done by a team of volunteers, but totally transparent with discussions on mailing lists and phone conferences. A lot of the members are IT freelancers (mostly Java EE developers). Resellers are also welcome. Currently there are about 200 members.

Based in Germany, but open to anyone in Europe. The webpages are currently only available in German, but that doesn't mean that people who speak a different language aren't welcome. It's just that noone has found the time yet to translate everything.

nico_h
I use nearlyFreeSpeech.net, a simple and very cheap webhost: billed by the cent, and 10$ lasted me years. For the software, I wrote my own blog 'engine'(s).

Just started using ___.sh: a 42 lines, recursive, multimarkdown, sed & bash static html blog 'engine'. (http://github.com/nicolasH/frankensteins). I have the sources for my posts in three places : my computer, github and the web host.

I host these two sites there : http://www.niconomicon.net http://www.displayator.com

kgutteridge
slicehost here, though have used bluehost for a pure out and out blog before that I didn't have any need to access the shell
eswat
Within a year I’ve cycled through GitHub Pages, my VPS on Rackspace and Tumblr. I guess GitHub Pages and Rackspace were one-and-the-same since I used Jekyll for both.
julesallen
App Engine has been simply excellent. I've got a $5 limit on possible daily charges and mostly stacked in the bandwidth areas.

Really like the admin interface, the sensible Python, and 'appcfg.py upload .' is a lot like waiting for C to compile!

Charges so far have been $0.00 and, admittedly, traffic has been low. But should a /.otting come along I might have to shell out a couple of bucks (bfd!).

Pent
I just host a ton of sites including my personal sites on a single Linode VPS.
didip
Linode. Cheap and awesome support.

You can also use GitHub Pages with blogofile.

jongos
I use Tumblr for my blog, About.me for my bio, LinkedIn for my resume, and Twitter.com for people get in touch. When I have to host anything myself I use MediaTemple.
ajdecon
Dreamhost for my personal site (and a host of other sites), Linode VPS for dev and experimentation.
stef25
Linode using a small Codeigniter blog engine I wrote myself. My clients are hosted on the same server.
ltamake
I just have a blog I host with Tumblr.