Ghost for my personal blog and also photography portfolio. Been happily using it for years, easy to self host. Quite surprised not to see more mentions of it here.

Hugo! Compiles Markdown down to a stack of static HTML files, with a ton of flexibility. Currently i have it powering https://andrew-quinn.me/ , https://hiandrewquinn.github.io/til-site/ , and https://hiandrewquinn.github.io/selkouutiset-archive/ , all of which serve different niche purposes.

As for hosting, hosting HTML pages is super easy. The lowest effort for Hugo is GitHub Pages. Netlify is another solid option. https://andrew-quinn.me/ runs on Azure Static Web Apps, but that might take more cloud familiarity than you want to invest in. Or you could just run `hugo` and SCP the resulting directory to a VM!

Use a static site generator that is written in a language that you know well, so that you will be comfortable updating it and installing extensions. I use Pelican because I am comfortable with Python. Many people use Jekyll because they are comfortable with Ruby.

Astro SSG. Can easily add Tailwind and React, which I use in my day to day. Got a couple of sites ranked in top 3 for the keywords I'm targeting. Hosted on Cloudflare Pages, for free.

Racknerd VPS running Caddy serving a Hugo generated static site. Site and content are created/edited in Emacs and rsynced to server. Took the default Hugo generated theme and tweaked it to my tastes. Forget where I sourced the original CSS I used as a starting point.

https://www.hextxt.com

I swapped away from Wordpress to Pelican, a static site generator written in Python. The theme is a heavily customized version of Octapress - and its really performant with zero third-party dependencies / network requests.

Plus I like that I can literally click a button in Obsidian which formats a note, compresses/optimizes the media, and pushes it up to my website. Frictionless blog posting FTW.

https://github.com/getpelican/pelican

https://mordenstar.com

Though... recently I've been thinking about swapping over to Astro because the grass is always greener.

I use Next.js as a SSG with mdx-bundler[1] for my blog: https://rin.dev/journal.

[1] https://github.com/kentcdodds/mdx-bundler

HI,I made alexy.tech(its a work in progress) using a guide I found online. It uses notion as cms and github pages as host.

Guide Link:https://nerdymomocat.github.io/posts/introducing-webtrotion/

Since I am too lazy,I ony managed to publish one blog https://alexy.tech/posts/the-future-of-the-internet-more-rob...

I like Jekyll [1]. It is simple, uses markdown, and open source. I am not sure about the SEO part though.

[1]: https://jekyllrb.com/

Not personal, but I've started using bullet.so for my company blog (and website).

I like that I can just write stuff in Notion and have it magically appear on a webpage with decent formatting. Not perfect, but fairly easy to setup, customize and maintain.

i use hugo for static site generation and i write blog in emacs org mode. Hosting is on cloudflare pages.

For my 3 blogs (info in my profile), I use Astro with markdown on Netlify, but will move soon to my own VPS.

I use Zola, a static site generator written in Rust, and Github pages for hosting on my own domain.

I switched from WordPress to Eleventy in 2020 and never looked back.

https://www.joshcanhelp.com/taking-wordpress-to-eleventy/

I currently host on Netlify because it’s free but you could easily sync the generated HTML files to a box you manage.

Ghost, self-hosted on Fly.io free tier

Zola. Nice defaults, that's it. Also I'm biased towards Rust

Bear Blog:

https://bearblog.dev/

I use Jekyll[1]. It's quite popular which implies that it's easy to search for answers online or find steps to some specific customization you might need.

[1] https://blog.quipu-strands.com/jensens_inequality

I recently created a blog website using OpenAI o1, and it’s been great for generating content with minimal effort. If you're looking for something self-hosted, you can check out my project on GitHub here: [https://github.com/mergisi/openai-o1-coded-personal-blog . Let me know if you have any questions or need more details!

Hugo as a static site generator and hosted on Netlify with a custom domain.

Still using Jekyll, keep meaning to switch to something else, but it works… www.atomic14.com

Astro with Markdown with a static host. Quite simple and quick to get started.

I tried a lot, now it's just pure HTML and CSS.

My advice: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41017177 (and there’s lots of other recs in that thread)

I used https://leoncvlt.github.io/imml/# for my personal website

I implemented my own https://github.com/shi-yan/QuipQuick

Hexo for generation and hosted on Github Pages.

https://i.hsfzxjy.site

VitePress[0] with a custom theme.

0 - https://vitepress.dev

Ghost can be easily spun up as a Docker container, is relatively fast and has a good SEO out-of-the-box.

I’m working on and using Lamb. You can find it via the github link in my profile.

The usp is friction free super simple blogging, self-hosted.

If you don’t mind using something under construction, I’d love to head any feedback.

github page with a custom domain