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Comment by akurilin | Hacker News Reader

Any solid alternatives HN could recommend?

Wordpress.

That might sound obvious, but it works and it's easy to setup. I left Posterous after they launched Spaces and went back to hosting my own Wordpress install. I host about 20 low traffic sites on a single Bluehost.com shared server that costs under $100 per year. Never had any issues. One click Wordpress install via SimpleScripts. It really doesn't get any easier.

Seconded.

My first regularly updated site in 96 was updated by hand; then I created a daily news site that was custom-roll; then I moved to Movable Type; then I custom-rolled again; somewhere in there I tried Drupal (for a year or so, not just a dalliance); then I used whatever RoR blogging engine was popular; then I got real and moved to Wordpress several years ago and haven't regretted it for more than a couple seconds, here and there. And those seconds of regret were more than made up for by the lack of crap I had to do myself. (And, naturally, nobody can shut MY wordpress blog down since I ran it on my own server and now WPEngine.)

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=wordpress

Ctrl+F, type plugin

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=php

A quick skim shows a lot of applications that use PHP and some libraries available with or for PHP. What does this have to do with WordPress?

I did the same after the acquisition was first announced. It took about an hour to get it running, and fully monitored by my Nagios installation.

I am using my own web site since the late 90's, never repented it.

Hosting companies come and go, do whatever they please with your data.

Nothing like having as much control as possible.

Sadly this is not possible for non-technical users.

Posthaven. If you liked Posterous, I promise you will like Posthaven. I was one of the cofounders of Posterous and wrote much of the site. Brett joined us as a cofounder and we really enjoyed working on it.

The difference this time is that we'll be 100% sustainable, and we are pledging to keep the site online forever. It's just me and Brett coding it right now.

http://posthaven.com

Getting a 503 Service Unavailable.

"Electric word life, it means 4ever and that's a mighty long time"

Forever is longer than a lifetime and we've seen how well just simple "lifetime" hosting promises go.

I'm moving here, looks awesome and love what Garry's doing with it :-)

Does it have posting by email like Posterous?

I paid the $5. You better not disappoint, Garry! :)

Use a static site generator and then deploy to any low-cost static host (e.g., CloudFront). Odds are that you really don't need a dynamic backend when you can just deploy new static files for each update.

Jekyll with https://github.com/bhollis/maruku for markdown on steroids.

I wrote about different ways to set up a reliable blog about a year ago. The post is still relevant, except I'd add SquareSpace as a good option and obviously remove the part about Posterous.

See http://www.maxmasnick.com/articles/bulletproof_your_blog

octopress on github pages

http://everyone.me/ - utilizes dropbox

requires $5 per month subscription.

Not really a direct alternative as it's only for single posts, but I better plug Pen.io

According to that blog post, WordPress & SquareSpace have importers.

Scriptogr.am

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