I recently started making newsletters for friends as i have deleted all social media (bar this) and i find it super fun and a refreshing way to keep in contact (we send them back to each other). I try and create a new theme every month to pass onto them. And this month, i made a small static site with a few jokey articles on it.
At the end of it, it made me quite nostalic for what we used to have (i had an awful blog in high school, before social media took ahold).
Anyway, after reflecting on it. It made me want to find a few more blogs to read because i loved the format of it and it made me wonder, do you guys have a blog? what do you write about?
Do you want one? what WOULD you write about?
I’ve been looking at selfhosting options for my partner, an author, who wants a blog.
So far I’ve tried Haven, and I’m not sure it’s gonna be a good fit, not having a “guest account” option for non-registered users.
If anyone has a recommendation I’d super appreciate it, ideal not dealing with nginx 😅
nginx is a reverse proxy and quite easy to use. You generally would have it in front of anything you host, no matter what it is. There are very few things I’d trust directly exposed.
Ghost is the most full featured self hosted blogging platform other than wordpress. If he doesn’t care if people read it or not there are plenty options to just privately post your crap (which is what I do so I can go back and reference) however you probably don’t want that since you want “option for non registered users”
As far as security goes running Hugo and generating static sites is about as secure as it gets, no backend no user interaction though
He can also sign up on any of the news/blog sites and post there like medium etc.
Thanks for the reply! Re direct expose: ive got a Cloudflare tunnel so I can keep my firewalls tight, I don’t directly expose anything ever, not since I made a Minecraft server directly exposed in 2018 and within hours had already had over 100 unidentified attempts at connection from who knows where.
I’ll take a look at Ghost, I don’t expect Hugo to be what they’re looking for but I’ll show them anyway.
Right now we’re looming for a place for her to mirror her Substack and start migrating her fans to her platform, rather than drive deeper into the corpoverse regarding sharing her work.
unidentified attempts are just standard internet, bots are always poking every port on every IP 24/7 for last 25 years never stopping.
yea good luck with the ghost, otherwise there is always wordpress lol. If you’re wanting reader/viewer interaction there are only a few other than maybe just running a forum and posting .