<story><title>It Took Me a Decade to Find the Perfect Personal Website Stack – Ghost+Fathom</title><url>https://davidgomes.com/it-took-me-a-decade-to-find-the-perfect-personal-website-stack/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jeremyjh</author><text>Well and later they admit:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; So, all in all, I’m paying almost 400 euros per year to host a personal blog.&lt;p&gt;Seems...a bit much. But what do I know? I&amp;#x27;ve just been using Jekyll since 2013. For a long time now Github has had first-class support for Jekyll and so I haven&amp;#x27;t even had to mess with Ruby for many years now, I usually just edit it online in the Github UI. I pay $0 a year for this service so my only cost is DNS.</text></item><item><author>bhaney</author><text>&amp;gt; I actually pay Ghost roughly 200 euros per year&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; I just write them in Notion, and then I copy-paste them into the Ghost editor&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; every now and then I have to hack some CSS together to fix some bugs&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; the theme can only be compiled with an ancient version of npm&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; the code is really messy, so at some point I won’t be able to maintain it any longer&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; images don’t work very well with my theme&lt;p&gt;To each their own, but to me this sounds like an absolutely terrible &amp;quot;website stack&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>INTPenis</author><text>Why is this even on HN? It seems like a terribly confused blog post, about a terribly inefficient stack.&lt;p&gt;To create any static site, including blogs, I just use hugo, maybe a custom theme, edit it in any editor, including the online one at github&amp;#x2F;gitlab, once it merges&amp;#x2F;pushes the CI&amp;#x2F;CD script is just 3 lines and 2 of those deal with aws.&lt;p&gt;And of course the pricing depends on the traffic but s3 and cloudfront can handle a lot of traffic before it starts getting out of hand.</text></comment>
<story><title>It Took Me a Decade to Find the Perfect Personal Website Stack – Ghost+Fathom</title><url>https://davidgomes.com/it-took-me-a-decade-to-find-the-perfect-personal-website-stack/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jeremyjh</author><text>Well and later they admit:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; So, all in all, I’m paying almost 400 euros per year to host a personal blog.&lt;p&gt;Seems...a bit much. But what do I know? I&amp;#x27;ve just been using Jekyll since 2013. For a long time now Github has had first-class support for Jekyll and so I haven&amp;#x27;t even had to mess with Ruby for many years now, I usually just edit it online in the Github UI. I pay $0 a year for this service so my only cost is DNS.</text></item><item><author>bhaney</author><text>&amp;gt; I actually pay Ghost roughly 200 euros per year&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; I just write them in Notion, and then I copy-paste them into the Ghost editor&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; every now and then I have to hack some CSS together to fix some bugs&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; the theme can only be compiled with an ancient version of npm&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; the code is really messy, so at some point I won’t be able to maintain it any longer&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; images don’t work very well with my theme&lt;p&gt;To each their own, but to me this sounds like an absolutely terrible &amp;quot;website stack&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>firecall</author><text>Jekyll is great.&lt;p&gt;Fashions with things come and go, but Jekyll is still around.&lt;p&gt;Much faster now too, thanks to improvements to Jekyll and importantly Ruby!&lt;p&gt;Compile times used to be painful, especially with inclusions and data files, but now I don’t have any noticeable build time pain!&lt;p&gt;Cloud Cannon is a great service to run Jekyll on, but not free I don’t think.</text></comment>