My blog is currently running on Ghost 1.0 I’m blogging for almost 20 years, started with blogger.com I think, eventually migrated to self-hosted Ghost when it was pretty new and lightweight. I can host anything that runs on Linux, I can even use Docker.
I don’t want to migrate to the latest Ghost version because it feels very enterprisey now, needs a lot of resources on the server and uses a complex data format instead of Markdown. I don’t need monetization either.
My requirements are:
- possible to migrate ~30-40 Markdown posts + embedded images from Ghost 1.0
- future proof, i.e. simple data format so I don’t get locked in
- low RAM/CPU usage
- easy maintenance, creating posts, backups, etc
- RSS support
I’ll be very grateful for any suggestions.
Being that you are 20 years in the blog space, you may not like my answer.
I had a similar experience as you. I was using ghost blog. I thought it was going to make having a blog so much easier. It didn’t.
Anyways, I looked and looked and tried a few and nothing felt right.
I settled on learning HTML and CSS using docker ngnx server to dish out my index page.
Making everything the way you want it is so much more pleasing than the cookie cuter blog platforms. Learning everything took a few days of studying and watching YouTube videos. But eventually you pick up enough to online search your way out of something you may not have learned or forgot.
This makes having a blog so basic and and small of a program and storage space. Super lightweight.
That’s a very refreshing take and it reminds me of a simpler time, before “Web 2.0”. I can do HTML/CSS no problem, I actually teach a web development course in high school. For my own blog it might be too much of a distraction though, I really want to focus on the content.
But I agree, building a website from scratch can be very rewarding :)
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