Self hosted blogging engine
reddit / selfhosted

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NekoLuka · 2023-10-11 20:24

Hi,

I wanna host a simple but modern blogging engine to share my journey
and discoveries with the world. I would like it to store posts in
files so that I can back it up using git or the like and that I can
run it in docker (and doesn't have the looks of a mid 2000's website).

Does anyone know of anything?

I've looked at this list: [https://github.com/awesome-
selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#blogging-
platforms](https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-
selfhosted#blogging-platforms). But nothing really fits what I'm
looking for. Chyrp lite is the closest, but with no official docker
support I also failed to get it working reliably with my own image.

I hope you all have some ideas!

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ushills · 2023-10-11 20:31

What about using something like Jekyll with Github pages?

https://docs.github.com/en/pages/setting-up-a-github-pages-site-with-
jekyll/about-github-pages-and-jekyll

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NekoLuka · 2023-10-11 20:32

That looks promising, I'll look into it.

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ushills · 2023-10-11 20:32

Or https://www.getlektor.com/ if you are into Python

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adamshand · 2023-10-11 20:36

Most people have moved from Jekyll to Hugo. But there are lots of them
Google SSG or static site generators.

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virtualadept · 2023-10-11 22:31

Check out [Pelican](https://getpelican.com/), it might be closer to
what you're looking for.

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bubblegumpuma · 2023-10-11 22:38

I think you should look at some static site generators, probably,
since that leaves you with an end product that can be hosted with any
webserver quite easily. Hugo is the one that I use, and [it has a lot
of nice themes for personal blogs and
such](https://themes.gohugo.io/). Most of the themes I've looked at
generate the pages from Markdown.

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JumpingCoconutMonkey · 2023-10-12 01:15

Looks cool!

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Kaleodis · 2023-10-12 01:25

I just spun up a wordpress install (in docker, there is official
support for it) and used a blog template. job done.

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revereddesecration · 2023-10-12 02:14

Ghost is great.

Do you really need to back up your posts with git?

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SeaNefariousness4835 · 2023-10-12 02:15

GitHub or gitlab with mkdocs (material theme is awesome).

Super easy setup and customization, all you need to know is how to
write in markdown (with pages and ci/cd pipeline Everytime you change
the main branch your stuff gets posted).

It can all be done for free without exposing your home network.

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s3_gunzel · 2023-10-12 06:13

I personally find Cloudflare Pages to be a better option, having used
both.

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Nagashitw · 2023-10-12 08:56

This is the way

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alhevi · 2023-10-12 10:16

Check out the Astro framework, you can write blogs in markdown. A
default blogging theme also exists where you have a directory to store
the blog md files. The site then getting them automatically from the
directory

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lilolalu · 2023-10-12 16:02

Kirby is nice although not free:
https://getkirby.com/buy

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isThisRight-- · 2023-10-13 11:17

I truly enjoy Python because of stuff like this. Seriously, people do
so many cool things with the language, like what hasn’t been done yet?

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virtualadept · 2023-10-13 16:36

`import soul`

:)