Hi,

I’m looking into hosting a blog site for myself - nothing fancy, just a site where I can publish some of my thoughts and ideas. Maybe I also want a section to publish images. So, basically something lean and mostly text only.

What’s the easiest way to set this up for myself?

  • AlecStewart1st@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Find a static site generator you can tolerate and style things the way you want, have the static files be generated, pick your favorite way to host and server up those static files.

    It’s not self hosted, but you might like 750words as well.

  • TheEmpireStrikesDak@thelemmy.clubEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I do that. I have WordPress.org with classic editor enabled and the raw html plugin. Use a classic layout like twenty twelve if you don’t want the fancy effects. Look for a host that has softaculous or something similar to automate the installation. My host charges about £60 pa with unlimited bandwidth.

    You can also use WordPress.com for free but it has Gutenberg, which I absolutely cannot bear. Some people like it though. It’s also less customisable.

  • pound_heap@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Depends on what you want exactly. Easy and self-hosted are not usually go well together unless you’ve got enough experience.

    Easiest way for blog - use a platform. WordPress.com is great and has free tier.

    More involved, but still relatively easy - static site generator. I use Hugo myself, there is Jakyll that is popular too. Host it for free on GitHub or GitLab pages.

    I would not self-host a public web site for security reasons. But you can run a static site on some cloud service. A personal blog with small audience should be fine on Oracle free tier.

  • ripe_banana@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I really like hugo. Everything is written in Markdown and its pretty light. Definitely not as heavy as a full CMS. I also think the themes are pretty nice.

    To deploy it you can use github pages or some cloud services (the hugo site lists some).

    Its also pretty flexible, so its pretty easy to change how you want to deploy it, or change the look.

    • rentar42@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      And even if you absolutely want to self-host the serving of static pages: Making that secure and not prone to security issues is much easier than something that can actually execute PHP.