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📣 moishtech

I need a blog engine, which will be around for 10-15 years


Hi All,

Desperately need help. I need to create a blog. My wife has taken my child. The idea, to document everything so when my child is 15-16 years old, she will be able to read each and every post I do for her. Which blog platform, do people fee has longevity, in this crazy Covid-19 ridden world of companies going bust daily?

  👤 probably_wrong Accepted Answer ✓
Technical answer: if longevity is your priority, you need either to self-host everything or use a static blog generator. In the first case, you can install anything you want in your own server (Wordpress is always a good choice) and it will keep running as long as you pay your bills. For the second case (with something like Jekyll or Pelican), all you need is a website that hosts static files (namely, all of them) and if one goes down you simply re-upload somewhere else.

There's yet another point to consider: is there a reason why it has to be a blog? If you intend to give it to your child, a Word document is all you need.

Personal answer: I would encourage you not to blog in anger. I had to sort through a book written once by someone in pain for losing a child, and it was a very uncomfortable experience. I encourage to ask yourself "is this something that will make my child's life better, or is this something that will make my life better?". If it's the second, I would encourage you to still write it, but in a private diary rather than a public blog.

👤 Tomte
Posthaven (https://posthaven.com/) claims to be just that.

Unfortunately, the founder was also a founder of Posterous, which was insanely cool back then and pretty much the same as Posthaven now, including the longevity claims. Posterous is no more.

Still, they claim to mean it this time, and not take VC money, so it's worth a look.

👤 viraptor
Why do you need a platform? Get something that renders to a static site and stick the result in an object store with a domain attached. Or even just a html file with

contents

. Or even a txt.
👤 kennydude
WordPress.

It's open source, easy to use, hostable pretty much everywhere and you can easily export and move your content anywhere.

I'm sure even if Automattic go bust, it'll continue

👤 s_dev
Wordpress or Ghost.