What do you use for personal site + blog?
I am curious to know what IHer are using for a personal website? Is it paid or free? What are the pros and cons for your service?
- I like Medium for blogging but I'd like to own my content.
- I've had a jekyll blog before, mostly for software stuff. Now looking to establish a more general purpose home on the Internets (something I've happily neglected doing in the past)
- I could go with wordpress.org but have heard it can be time consuming because there are too many options for everything
I'd like to optimize how much time I spend setting up and making it look good! :)
Jekyll-based site, hosted on GitLab. Been considering moving to a VPS but I feel like hosting with GL/GH pages has a higher likelihood of remaining online and available for longer (like, even after I'm not here, assuming the domain is still pointed ;)
@joshtronic yeah I like the blogging 'workflow' of a jekyll site. I ended up creating a personal site with Ghost hosted on Digital Ocean. We'll see how I like it. I like to think about whether a platform will last for the next decade up to my lifetime as well :)
I use Carrd and have been loving it so far, plus it's really affordable! No blogging, but I simply link my Medium and social links on there. Here's my website on it https://michaelenko.com/
@thevoice Thanks! I am already using carrd for couple other pages, it's a good idea to put up a single page like that with links while I get going on a more elaborate setup with a blog posts, etc. Your page looks really nice btw!
Ghost for blog, landen.co for site.
@Mathias458 thanks!
I ended up going with Jekyll for my new blog, gated behind a hand-coded "homepage." I didn't want to manage more software on my VPS just for this, so I only looked at static site generators; Hugo and Gatsby were both very nice, but even with experience in the relevant languages and web work, I was never quite able to get the layout quite where I wanted it.
By contrast, I had Jekyll doing what I wanted after just a few hours.
The big downside is that I now have a build process to manage, versus just setting a post to publish in a CMS. I also suspect the generated files can stand to be optimized before deploying it. Other than that, I'm happy.
@jcolag ah okay. Cool, I actually liked Jekyll workflow of writing markdown and pushing to repo for publishing. What do you use for hosting? I was using Github Pages.
I already pay for a VPS for other projects, so I just "rsync" the site over there. I may consider GitHub Pages in the future, though I'd have to decide what to do about comments, since I'm currently using Hashover (a PHP project).
I use squarespace, but I am not very happy about SEO of the themes they got for blogs
@Kristina gotcha thanks!
I use Wordpress - self hosted with hardly any plugins.
Its not really bad when it's not bogged down and it's easy to make your existing site WP compatible
@Le2Guy thanks, good to know!
I use the Gatsby blog theme. https://www.gatsbyjs.org/packages/gatsby-theme-blog/
it's what Dan Abramov uses for his blog at https://overreacted.io/
very easy to get it started, just instal the theme then start writing posts in markdown.
Push it to github to host for free with netlify.
@makon thanks! I am leaning toward something like this! (until it makes sense to spend $ on this)
I use a static site generator and host on netlify for free. If you pick an existing theme it can be built very quickly but if you want to build your own theme you’ll need to spend some time learning the generator.
Other good options for simple blogs are https://write.as or https://svbtle.com. They each cost $6 a month.
@jjung thanks, I'll check those out!
Self hosted Ghost is quick and easy, costs between $2.5 - $5 a month and if you buy a theme a little more.
Gatsby is another option you can get a nice theme for free and host on https://www.netlify.com/ for free.
I plan on offering a "Personal plan" for https://versoly.com/ just not sure how to do it.
$15 is too high for a basic personal site.
@volkandkaya cool, these two look like the options for me to try out. Just checked out versoly. I may get in touch about my landing page in some time!
Great :)
I'm diving into Ghost atm.
Thanks @rosiesherry! :)
You can create a personal website + blog in seconds with https://urspace.io ! I'll greenlight you today if you sign up :) lmk
example: https://em.urspace.io/
Thanks!
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