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

by tikna on 7/8/11, 6:17 PM with 18 comments

• by nico_h on 7/8/11, 7:13 PM

  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

• by julesallen on 7/8/11, 8:57 PM

  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!).

• by charliepark on 7/8/11, 6:39 PM

  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.

• by blumentopf on 7/8/11, 6:57 PM

  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.

• by timjahn on 7/8/11, 6:27 PM

  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.

• by didip on 7/8/11, 9:51 PM

  Linode. Cheap and awesome support.

  You can also use GitHub Pages with blogofile.

• by jongos on 7/9/11, 12:07 AM

  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.

• by eswat on 7/8/11, 8:03 PM

  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.

• by stef25 on 7/9/11, 4:54 PM

  Linode using a small Codeigniter blog engine I wrote myself. My clients are hosted on the same server.

• by ajdecon on 7/9/11, 4:20 AM

  Dreamhost for my personal site (and a host of other sites), Linode VPS for dev and experimentation.

• by Pent on 7/8/11, 9:17 PM

  I just host a ton of sites including my personal sites on a single Linode VPS.

• by jterce on 7/8/11, 6:42 PM

  I have that and about 12 sites on my Bluehost account.

• by kgutteridge on 7/8/11, 7:32 PM

  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

• by ltamake on 7/9/11, 9:03 PM

  I just have a blog I host with Tumblr.

• by davidcrow on 7/8/11, 7:00 PM

  Dreamhost

• by brianritchie on 7/8/11, 7:04 PM

  Heroku for Jekyll.