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It's always seemed odd to me that there isn't a hosted service with a headless web/mobile CMS, compiling to a static site, that saves to a few common backends (s3, etc.), with reasonable pricing (i.e. not $10+/mo). Let the user pay for their own storage.

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Gitlab does that for free, with free storage. Just fork any of the existing example projects: https://gitlab.com/pages

Whenever I've looked at Gitlab/GH pages, Netlify, etcetera in the past I haven't found a good web/mobile CMS to use with them. Most pro options are too expensive for a personal blog. However ellinokon's suggestion for Siteleaf looks promising.

Are you saying that you didn't find one example out of the 20 examples they provide on the link i posted (octopress, nanoc, pelican, hyde, hexo, hugo, jekyll, metalsmith, vuepress, plain-html ...) that supports mobile, nor has a mobile compatible theme available ? The gitlab pages option is free even with a custom domain and https.

I don't mean a mobile compatible theme, but a CMS mobile app to edit and create content. So something like Netlify CMS and Siteleaf.

Netlify is exactly that with Gatsby, I have two blogs running on them.

Many themes have now deploy to Netlify buttons:

https://github.com/netlify-templates/gatsby-starter-netlify-...

Many themes support https://www.contentful.com/ as a backend.

The only thing that's a little concerning to me is the separation of domains: Hosting on a freemium service which deploys me a Node/React based static site generator that can connect to a third party headless CMS. That's why I still use markdown as the source of the content.

Too many moving parts, but at the same time if one goes down for good, I can fix it quite easily.

Doesn't several services like this exist already? Siteleaf should somewhat fit the bill. Webhook, now defunct, also did something similar.

Use Ghost. It's amazing. Using it with Docker (writing a post how to do this super easily) and it works flawlessly. The editing interface is unreal. Just run it on any instance you can (DO has instances that are $5 a month, or any server you already have running).

Hosting it on https://sdan.xyz/blog actually.

This is actually a really cool idea.

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