alt Hacker NewsWhat blog systems (either self hosted or easy to move) do folks recommend nowadays? I'm not interested in spending much time tinkering and updating, but have enough sysadmin experience to host one myself. Was last using blogger, though trying to de-googlify my life slowly
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Definitely recommend any Static Site Generator like Jekyll, Hugo, Eleventy, Astro, rolling your own, etc. it’s easy to deploy the resulting bundle on various hosting services and set up builds on git pushes.
Can I shamelessly self-promote Pagecord? Free plan plus super-cheap premium plan with loads of features. Also source available so self-hostable (arguably cheaper to let me do it for you!). Export in full HTML or static-site friendly Markdown so you’re not trapped.
I know this doesn’t answer your question specifically but it might help: https://manuelmoreale.com/blog-platforms
Hugo is my choice, but any static site generator is good enough. You can build one yourself in an afternoon if you don't need anything fancy.
if you're cool just writing markdown files, I really like Astro for self-hosting static content.
A single-binary static site generator would be my approach now. You can trust it to run in a few years.
I wrote my own SSG because I operate a website for a living and had specific needs. Prior to that I ran Craft CMS on the professional website and Wordpress on the personal one.
The benefit of SSGs is that the technical effort is tied to publishing. Once it’s online it stays online. You have both the human-readable source content and the static site. With traditional CMS there is a constant effort required to keep the website running. My dockerized Craft website wouldn’t start on the first few tries after a year offline.
SSGs are fantastic for building long-lasting websites with a low maintenance burden.