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Ask HN: Who's Blogging (November 2019)

5 pointsjjjbokma12 comments

Are you blogging? What platform do you use? Static or Dynamic? Self-hosting or not?

I use Etch (https://etch.blog) - a personal blogging platform with a built-in newsletter, custom domains and SSL, and no ads or popups.

I was self-hosting but got sick of dealing with it and founded Etch ;)

Hi! How can you charge such a low price? Also an unrelated technical question: how do you manage certificates for custom domains? Thanks

We think personal blogging should be affordable, and it doesn’t cost much to serve static cached HTML. In the future we may raise prices, but we’re bootstrapped so there’s no pressure to make millions hosting blogs.

We use Lets Encrypt to provide certificates, which is entirely automated.

https://alexanderell.is

I write on a simple static Hugo blog running on GitHub pages. I found that anything else makes tinkering too easy, which distracts me from the goal of writing. Writing often is hard enough, and I definitely don't need anything else getting in the way!

https://epiphany.pub/@shi-yan

Platform: https://epiphany.pub/@shi-yan/introduction

Dynamic,

I made the platform myself ...

I am a bloger at educational blog https://ivypanda.com/blog

https://epiphany.pub/@seisvelas

Dynamic, hosted on Epiphany. It's the best dev platform I've found.

I mostly rant about data engineering adjacent topics.

I'm writing growth hack guides @ https://contentdistribution.com.

It's on managed hosting at Kinsta.

I write music reviews at https://basstourist.com . WordPress, hosted on a VPS.

Helping my fiance run https://wanderandponder.com

Occasionally contribute to writing/proofreading

https://vitobotta.com

I use Jekyll, hosted on Netlify.

I rarely blog but trying. Self Hosted WordPress because I know it well. Works for me.

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