I recently created a blog website using OpenAI o1, and it’s been great for generating content with minimal effort. If you're looking for something self-hosted, you can check out my project on GitHub here: [https://github.com/mergisi/openai-o1-coded-personal-blog . Let me know if you have any questions or need more details!
As for hosting, hosting HTML pages is super easy. The lowest effort for Hugo is GitHub Pages. Netlify is another solid option. https://andrew-quinn.me/ runs on Azure Static Web Apps, but that might take more cloud familiarity than you want to invest in. Or you could just run `hugo` and SCP the resulting directory to a VM!
I use Jekyll[1]. It's quite popular which implies that it's easy to search for answers online or find steps to some specific customization you might need.
Same, although I recommend not relying on GitHub pages for generating the site due to the age of the gems available on it. I've initially kept my blog compatible with it even though I'm serving it from my NAS, but I ended up ditching compatibility because of that in order to use more modern versions.
But isn't a VPS an inferior option compared to a static host like Netlify? Netlify is free and gets your statics on a global CDN. A VPS is not free and has to serve the statics itself.
I swapped away from Wordpress to Pelican, a static site generator written in Python. The theme is a heavily customized version of Octapress - and its really performant with zero third-party dependencies / network requests.
Plus I like that I can literally click a button in Obsidian which formats a note, compresses/optimizes the media, and pushes it up to my website. Frictionless blog posting FTW.
Astro SSG. Can easily add Tailwind and React, which I use in my day to day. Got a couple of sites ranked in top 3 for the keywords I'm targeting. Hosted on Cloudflare Pages, for free.
Not personal, but I've started using bullet.so for my company blog (and website).
I like that I can just write stuff in Notion and have it magically appear on a webpage with decent formatting. Not perfect, but fairly easy to setup, customize and maintain.
Ghost for my personal blog and also photography portfolio. Been happily using it for years, easy to self host. Quite surprised not to see more mentions of it here.
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[ 3.4 ms ] story [ 102 ms ] threadThe usp is friction free super simple blogging, self-hosted.
If you don’t mind using something under construction, I’d love to head any feedback.
https://bearblog.dev/
As for hosting, hosting HTML pages is super easy. The lowest effort for Hugo is GitHub Pages. Netlify is another solid option. https://andrew-quinn.me/ runs on Azure Static Web Apps, but that might take more cloud familiarity than you want to invest in. Or you could just run `hugo` and SCP the resulting directory to a VM!
[1] https://blog.quipu-strands.com/jensens_inequality
0 - https://vitepress.dev
https://www.joshcanhelp.com/taking-wordpress-to-eleventy/
I currently host on Netlify because it’s free but you could easily sync the generated HTML files to a box you manage.
https://i.hsfzxjy.site
Guide Link:https://nerdymomocat.github.io/posts/introducing-webtrotion/
Since I am too lazy,I ony managed to publish one blog https://alexy.tech/posts/the-future-of-the-internet-more-rob...
It still static, but will be served from my hardware rather than a PaaS.
I don't care much about the CDN aspect, its a blog in the end, and I prefer to host everything on an infrastructure I can control
Plus I like that I can literally click a button in Obsidian which formats a note, compresses/optimizes the media, and pushes it up to my website. Frictionless blog posting FTW.
https://github.com/getpelican/pelican
https://mordenstar.com
Though... recently I've been thinking about swapping over to Astro because the grass is always greener.
I like that I can just write stuff in Notion and have it magically appear on a webpage with decent formatting. Not perfect, but fairly easy to setup, customize and maintain.