What tech stack do you use for your blog?

Question

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.

BirAdam · Accepted Answer

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.

bojanvidanovic · Answer

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

XCSme · Answer

I made my own blog that just displays Markdown using PHP/Apache: https://github.com/Cristy94/markdown-blog

KomoD · Answer

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.

bediger4000 · Answer

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.

sklarsa · Answer

Zola, GitHub and Netlify. Easy and free

reacharavindh · Answer

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What tech stack do you use for your blog?

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

I made my own blog that just displays Markdown using PHP/Apache: https://github.com/Cristy94/markdown-blog

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.

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.

Zola, GitHub and Netlify. Easy and free

Material for Mkdocs
Https://aravindh.net

What tech stack do you use for your blog?

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

I made my own blog that just displays Markdown using PHP/Apache: https://github.com/Cristy94/markdown-blog

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.

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.

Zola, GitHub and Netlify. Easy and free

Material for MkdocsHttps://aravindh.net

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

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.

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.

Material for Mkdocs
Https://aravindh.net