Do you self-host it using FOSS tools? Use Wordpress? Design your own using PHP frameworks such as laravel? Just curious what those that do it use?
I haven’t updated in a bit, but I host on neocities right now and use jekyll to generate the static blog.
https://ticktok.neocities.org/
Although I have a web host now that I might transfer it over to. I also want to move my jekyll setup to my vps so I can write and upload new blog posts from my phone without having to remote into my home pc.
If I was to create a blog today, I would use a static page generator and host it on GitHub or GitLab. I would spend my time on creating original content instead of tweaking the infrastructure.
Blogs are pretty static, so I use Hugo to generate a static website, which I then dump in a github repo (I locally generate and then move said files into the right location and then
git add/git push), which I linked to my website/URL host (Vimexx - a Dutch host, which was a requirement as I don’t trust American ones).I love how I can now just write my blog in Markdown if I so want to, but raw HTML is available also, so I can mix and match as I wish. Pretty much backend heaven, IMO.
CSS is custom (using “CSS Grid”) and took me a long-ass time to get right, but I’m so happy I did! :D
Also, I added a little reference to The Net (yes, it works) :^)
Another vote for GitHub pages here. I use EleventyJS as the markdown-to-site generator.
It’s on my to-do list to replace GitHub pages with an S3 bucket with Route 53 and CloudFlare sometime in the next year or two, but that’s really just so I can pull analytics out of CloudFlare.
