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I just use PicoCMS and upload my markdown files through FTP. I don't think there's anything out there that can compete with the simplicity of this solution, not even static site generators.

It uses templates with Twig, and it's very simple PHP so you can host it anywhere.

I once hit the frontpage of a big aggregator from my country and it handled like it was nothing from a very cheap shared hosting.

From my Linux Mint laptop, all it takes is to open my FTP on Thunar (which involves a click in my sidebar), and I'm navigating it like any other file system. Right click, create file, write & format my post, and save the file.

Viola, it's published.

Oh, and you can mix Markdown with HTML and JS in your posts. Less stuff you need to learn.

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There are different definitions of simple. I found wordpress simple because I could access the UI to post from any device. I could upload images, save drafts, and preview posts. My static site, basically requires a desktop/laptop PC and to preview I have to build the site. This is far less simple to use even if it's simpler to run

I would argue that using something like Nuxt/Content[0]is even simpler. I create a new markdown file in my website’s local repo, write the content and commit if it’s ready for publishing. No need for the FTP step and version control is build in.

This setup is also completely free since the content lives on GitHub and my static site on render.com (but any static site hosting will work).

And since it’s Nuxt based, it automatically also supports more advanced features such as tagging, advanced queries and filtering.

Can only recommend it!

0. https://content.nuxtjs.org

Looks like free tier for render.com static sites is 100G egress per month. While this is sufficient for a low traffic site, I’d probably want to protect myself by putting Cloudflare (or some other free CDN) in front (yes I realize that render.com has their own CDN network in front, but that’s still wrapped inside the 100G free tier limit it looks like).

The hardest part to me, is install PHP.

There are tons of very cheap hosting providers who are stable and have been around a long time. You could look at buyshared.net which is the webhosting arm of buyvm.net.

What is good solution for hosting a domain anonymously? I want to start blogging but don’t want to do a personal one just yet. I mean anonymous in lightweight general sense, not political activist super security.

WHOIS[1] masking hides your information from the world. It's a service provided by some domain sellers who, obviously, will know those details (given them by you), as well as your financial information as you can't usually lease domains using untraceable transactions.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHOIS

Thank you going to look into that!

nearlyfreespeech.net

WhoisGuard and similar are in this case enough for privacy.

is picocms still a static site? cms like drupal,wordpress can control content access with password,which is where cms stands out.

Almost. It's PHP serving markdown files through twig templates, but there is no control panel or backoffice to speak of.

So you basically remove 99% of the attack surface.

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