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Ask HN: What tech stack do you use for your blog?

5 points by jilles ↗ HN
Hi y'all,

There are quite a few blogging solutions out there. My original blog uses a self hosted version of Ghost on a DigitalOcean droplet for about $5 a month. It has served me well. I am looking to start another personal blog, less focussed on technology. What are the tech stacks you'd use today for a blog?

A few options I have considered:

* Ghost: Known for its simplicity and focus on content creation. * WordPress: A versatile choice with a vast ecosystem of themes and plugins. * Jekyll: Great for static sites, often combined with GitHub Pages. * Running on Vercel: For modern frontend frameworks and Jamstack architecture.

Would love to hear if I am missing any great options.

7 comments

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KomoD
I used to use Ghost as well, very pleasant experience.

If you like it I see no reason to use anything else, especially if you're already used to it.

BirAdam
I wrote a few bash CGI scripts. With those in place, I just toss my markdown files into a posts/ directory and they become entries.

Then, there are just 3 limitations. The title starts with #, the date starts with ##, and those must be the first two lines of text. Then, anywhere in the document a line that starts with "tags: " contains tags that are separated with a space.

It works for me.

sklarsa
Zola, GitHub and Netlify. Easy and free
bediger4000
hugo (Mainroad theme), github, vim, gimp, imagemagick, Apache httpd, CentOS on a VPS, a little PHP.

Hugo was trickier than I wanted to get correct.

I avoided WordPress because I ran a WordPress honeypot for a while, and holy cow, do people go after WordPress sites hard.