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

by jilles on 1/11/24, 7:42 PM with 7 comments

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.

  • by BirAdam on 1/11/24, 7:49 PM

    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.

  • by bojanvidanovic on 1/12/24, 9:59 AM

    I experimented with many stacks, but I'm sticking to: Hugo, TinaCMS, Tailwind, Stimulusjs, and Turbojs, all hosted on Cloudflare Pages.

    website: https://bojanvidanovic.com

  • by XCSme on 1/12/24, 2:57 PM

    I made my own blog that just displays Markdown using PHP/Apache: https://github.com/Cristy94/markdown-blog
  • by KomoD on 1/11/24, 7:47 PM

    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.

  • by bediger4000 on 1/11/24, 10:10 PM

    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.

  • by sklarsa on 1/11/24, 8:19 PM

    Zola, GitHub and Netlify. Easy and free
  • by reacharavindh on 1/11/24, 10:15 PM

    Material for Mkdocs

    Https://aravindh.net