Ask HN: What's your blogging platform?

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by rukshn • 13 years ago

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There are so many new blogging platforms. What's the platform you're using? Do you still use blogger? Or use a newer platform?

Is it self hosted or hosted by the blogging service?

k__• 13 years ago

I build one myself. Liked the workflow in some PHP blogging software, but didn't want to have PHP on my server and the node.js blogs (before ghost) were unusable compile-to-static-html crapware or tutorials on learning node.js while building your own blog haha...

pkhamre• 13 years ago

Self-hosted Octopress[1], but I'm working in migrating to Ghost.

[1] http://octopress.org/

deepak56• 13 years ago

I was going to start on Ghost but then just used Medium. Curious to know why people would choose Ghost over Medium considering that you will have to host that yourself?

alexgaribay• 13 years ago

Ghost will have a hosted solution similar to Wordpress where Ghost will host it.

factorialboy• 13 years ago

Custom, built with Scala, deployed on Heroku. Posts written in Markdown. Linked in my profile. Code hosted on Github (public).

rurounijones• 13 years ago

Octopress + github pages.

Andrenid• 13 years ago

Self hosted WordPress. Manage a few dozen of them so keep my own the same to keep things simple.

Definitely want to play with Ghost soon though.

meerita• 13 years ago

Jekyll.

pjvds• 13 years ago

Jekyll, hosted on AmazonS3 and auto deployed by wercker: http://born2code.net/blog/2013/05/27/simplify-your-jekyll-pu...

rk0567• 13 years ago

Wordpress and jekyll.

dirktheman• 13 years ago

I switched from wordpress to Jekyll on AWS S3 last year: http://www.dirktheman.com/tech/2013/05/12/i-switched-my-blog...

pastylegs• 13 years ago

Jekyll

thenomad• 13 years ago

Managed Wordpress with WP-Engine. It's more expensive than self-hosted but it saves me days in not-having-to-fuck-with-my-server time.

( I wrote about this in some depth a while ago: http://www.mmomeltingpot.com/2012/03/wpengine-review-after-1... )

Why Wordpress? Mostly for the It Just Works factor. I've done my time in the CMS trenches - I've written my own several times back before there were any decent hosted solutions. Nowadays, if it's reasonably easy to use and not too slow I'm good with it.

Plus, Wordpress has the advantage of an absolutely massive ecosystem around it, meaning that any features I want to add rarely require custom code, and usually just require a Google search. :)

etler• 13 years ago

Jekyll and GitHub pages. What can I say? I'm cheap.

rartichoke• 13 years ago

I use my own. I spent about 3 weeks making a nice one with rails. It took so long because I was learning rails and also ruby as I went.

I use it over managed solutions because I've set it up to easily integrate into any site, it loads insanely fast and has a lot of modern features you would expect (split pane live preview with markdown, auto saving without creating a million drafts, user login to handle authors, etc.).

Most managed solutions lack 1 or 2 important features in some way or another and that ruins the experience.

swanson• 13 years ago

Jekyll - GitHub Pages (w/ custom domain) - Lagom theme - GitHub issues for brainstorming ideas - No comment system

It is free, super fast, works great for Markdown/plain-text editor. I never have to dick around with anything (security, caching plugins, spam, etc) - I can just write. And sometimes nice people send me pull requests to fix typos :)

https://github.com/swanson/swanson.github.com

https://github.com/swanson/lagom

anishkothari• 13 years ago

octopress on github pages with prose.io, cheap and effective

michaelmior• 13 years ago

Just switched to nanoc[1] deployed to GitHub pages via Travis.

[1] http://nanoc.ws/

austinbirch• 13 years ago

Jekyll, GitHub pages, and a custom domain.

Using Markdown means no constraint on what software you use to edit your posts, which is really nice.

Another advantage to using a static site generator is your blog will be (generally) fast to load, secure, and it will be really easy to find somewhere to host it for a low cost (or even for free).

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