Show HN: MyJekyllBlog – an open source CMS and web host for Jekyll blogs

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Hi HN,

I’m very excited to show you MyJekyllBlog, a blog hosting platform I have been working on.

Two months ago I shared the GitHub link for the project, and since then I have introduced free demo accounts so you can try it out, improved the templates offered, and introduced import/export functionality so that you can download or upload a tgz of the Jekyll site. The development process is written about on https://tech.myjekyllblog.com/

Apparently rather cool for a solo developer. But how is this better than GitHub Pages?

Thanks!

GitHub Pages is a closed source hosting platform. MyJekyllBlog is open source and MIT licensed.

As far as I’m aware, you cannot spin up your own version of GitHub Pages to host things for yourself and offer those hosting services to others. MyJekyllBlog encourages this and has a guide (https://github.com/symkat/MyJekyllBlog#installation-guide) for setting it up yourself.

Makes sense. Thanks.

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