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Comment by theandrewbailey | Hacker News Reader

I blog on my own site, on my own domain name, on my own hardware.

But it seems that most HN'ers use a static site generator and push to Github Pages.

EDIT: might as well give the link: https://theandrewbailey.com/

Nice set up and I'd like to run my own hardware if I had the time. One thing that has always put me off about running my own hardware is that someone in my house accidentally turns it off or we have a power outage. Do you have any tips for running your own hardware?

I have it set up in my basement next to the router; both are plugged into a UPS. UPS claims to run for about 2 hours on battery (with an ear-piercing beep every minute the whole time), so it'll cover most momentary power outages. Admittedly, I got the UPS because I have the drives encrypted and didn't want to re-type the key every time I had a half second power outage.

Oh, and backups. I'm pretty solid on backing up the data and server software (I think), but I don't have spare hardware, so if something physically breaks, I'll be down for a week or so.

One caveat to GH Pages is if the repo’s public then all your amendments, typos, mistakes etc can be seen in a diff due to the way GitHub works. Not sure about private repos however. You may be able to conceal mistakes with that but not sure

I'd bet a significant amount of money that in most cases no one will ever bother to look through the commit history...

And if you're really worried about it you do your work in one repo and "publish" to another.

Or git commit --amend and force-push :-)

If you're publishing a site to the internet anyway, anyone could download every page on your site, submit it to archive.org, take a screenshot, or manually copy your posts onto a notepad. I find the GH Pages + Jekyll workflow works really well for my purposes, and it's been a nice way to play around with static site generation to boot.

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