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Recommendation Self Hosting Blog (lemm.ee)
submitted 1 year ago by happydoors@lemm.ee to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Hi everyone, I am running truenas scale on a modest home NAS. I have got some of my services tunneling to some subdomains via cloud flare zero trust and it seems to be fine. I am looking for advice on how to self host a blog and if I can continue that same method. It would be great to run it to the main domain instead of a sub domain, but honestly I don’t care too much. I expect none to very little traffic. I am looking for an app that I can run relatively easy and makes blogging for myself (images + text) as frictionless as possible. I am having trouble finding a guide for this and any that I do are on running much older versions of truenas scale.

I have heard good things about Ghost but couldn’t get it installed properly. Is Wordpress my best bet? I read somewhere that it can be sketchy opening up Wordpress to the internet so I am apprehensive. Any advice?

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[–] happydoors@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I guess both? Platform recommendations like yours will help point me in the right direction to figure out the admin part bit by bit. Much appreciated

[–] tofubl@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If you're not very set on hosting at home, hosting a static Hugo page directly on Github Pages is incredibly convenient and easy (and free.) With the right Github Action, updating the site is as simple as pushing content to the main branch and it automatically deploys. And should Github ever give you a reason to do so, moving away is as simple as copying your static files to any other webhost and pointing your domain there instead.

Edit: It's of course equally easy to deploy on your NAS - just a basic nginx serving the directory with your static site that Hugo generated.