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Comment by benwerd | Hacker News Reader

This is a lot of the underlying motivation behind the indieweb community, which is growing (and holding an event in NYC this weekend): https://indieweb.org

If it's important to your reputation, professional or otherwise, you should own it. Starting a self-hosted blog is easier than ever to do, and immediately frees you from these kinds of arbitrary actions.

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"The IndieWeb is a community of individual personal websites, connected by simple standards, based on the principles of owning your domain, using it as your primary identity, to publish on your own site (optionally syndicate elsewhere), and own your data."

Nice. I really like the idea of a return to more simple, light, people oriented websites. Take a look at this, it was posted some months ago, https://brutalist-web.design/

I host my blog on github pages but I always have that niggling doubt about it.

My main issue with hosting the blog myself is the HN/Reddit hug of death. Does anyone have any experience around this? Do they use a CDN to take some of the weight off?

If you statically host your blog it will not be a problem. One of my blog posts hit ~1000 points on Reddit and 500 on hacker news. This barely moved the needle on CPU and network utilization. I guess even a 5€ droplet will do

I host http://compellingsciencefiction.com statically from an S3 bucket. The thing scales remarkably well, never had a problem during spikes, and costs only a few cents per month.

This is quite cool. I've just (yesterday) started making my own website in a similar vein, I didn't realize there were actual standards. I will try to implement them :)

If you want to take a look (still super early stage):

http://www.hmontenegro.com

Thanks for your comment. I’m in NYC and I didn’t realize there was gonna be an event tomorrow. I’ve RSVPed yes and looking forward to checking it out!

Ironically, the event is sponsored by Google (amongst others).

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