What are people using to host blogs on SDF? (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I just noticed (and made a post on BBOARD under REQUESTS) that Jekyll doesn't seem to be available anymore. It seemed as of a few years ago that was the popular choice for hosting a blog on SDF.

But maybe there are better solutions these days?

I don't want to do some sort of Wordpress or any sort of database-backed thing. I just want a lightweight, static generator of some sort, that can take Markdown and update a bunch of HTML files, maintaining the site structure, index files, etc. etc.

Back in the day I used Blosxom for this, but it got hard to keep running (at least for me, not being very into Perl), so I migrated everything over to Jekyll... but it's never really been the lightweight, easy-to-use solution that I hoped it would be.

Anyone have thoughts or suggestions?

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Gopher.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

I use hugo, it’s a fast lightweight static site generator written in go

I think that the blagh app for werc might also work, it’s written in rc shell

[-] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

In a previous life, I also used Hugo on SDF with great results. Since it's a single binary, it's easy enough to even manage yourself if you want to control the version in play.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

im a minimalist so i just made a gemini page. and i have a mastodon acct. tbf neither probably the right size for what you’re describing though

[-] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I decided to move to gemini on SDF. Data is far easier to maintain and you can use any editor to add/change files.

In case you do not know what I am referring to:

https://wiki.sdf.org/doku.php?id=gemini_site_setup_and_hosting_features

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Thanks for the reminder about Gemini... I decided to try it out and have been enjoying the process so far. We'll see how it goes!

[-] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Not exactly a blog, but I'm using Dokuwiki to maintain everything wiki and blog-like, be it in SDF or elsewhere. Doesn't need a database, you can upload your content via whatever (SSH, RPC, git push, etc) and has various templates geared towards personal sites or information sites.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I made a php script to read markdown for mine

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