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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by estebanlm@lemmy.ml to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

Hi,

I am looking for a good and lightweight blogging solution.

I imagine I can just go with a static site generator like jekyll but I'd like something else... it would be a plus if it can federate :)

Any ideas?

Thanks !

EDIT: I forgot to say that obviously wordpress does not enters in the "lightweight" category ;)

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[-] dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It costs like $3/mo to host it. If that's too resource intensive then I don't know what your limits are. Compute isn't free—that literally breaks the laws of thermodynamics, no matter what you're told by hosting services, and ghost does server side rendering and has a dynamic admin dashboard and can even work headless... and it costs less than $3/mo for your own personal open source cms.

If you need something that costs less then you can just build your own I guess, but how many hours of your time is that worth when you could just be spending $3/mo. If you make minimum wage at $7/hr one hour of work gets you two months of running a website.

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