But otherwise, what do you use to host your personal pages/blogs. A shared host, or VPS, or any other alternative?
Just started using ___.sh: a 42 lines, recursive, multimarkdown, sed & bash static html blog 'engine'. (http://github.com/nicolasH/frankensteins). I have the sources for my posts in three places : my computer, github and the web host.
I host these two sites there : http://www.niconomicon.net http://www.displayator.com
You just grepped out each `echo` in the file instead of writing a usage() function? That's brilliant!
Really like the admin interface, the sensible Python, and 'appcfg.py upload .' is a lot like waiting for C to compile!
Charges so far have been $0.00 and, admittedly, traffic has been low. But should a /.otting come along I might have to shell out a couple of bucks (bfd!).
Recently, I wanted to start writing occasional posts, and wanted to split my original content off of my Tumblr (which I'd use to post "things I've found online that I like"). I played around with Jekyll and Github's hosted space, where they run Github Pages, and have been really happy with it.
That's a co-operative, non-profit hosting provider. It works kind of like car sharing: Everyone pays a monthly fee, based on the resources he/she uses, and that is used to fund hardware, colocation costs, domain registration etc. Administration is done by a team of volunteers, but totally transparent with discussions on mailing lists and phone conferences. A lot of the members are IT freelancers (mostly Java EE developers). Resellers are also welcome. Currently there are about 200 members.
Based in Germany, but open to anyone in Europe. The webpages are currently only available in German, but that doesn't mean that people who speak a different language aren't welcome. It's just that noone has found the time yet to translate everything.
I like the idea of people quickly getting a snapshot of me and my activities that way.
You can also use GitHub Pages with blogofile.