Re: recommended blog sites/software?

[DrPi <314@drpi.fr>]

Le 24/05/2020 à 22:32, Tero Koskinen a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> DrPi wrote on 23.5.2020 11.19:
>> Le 22/05/2020 à 20:25, Stephen Leake a écrit :
>>> I'm thinking of starting a blog about my work with Ada and Emacs.
>>> What sites/software do you recommend?
>>>
>>> I have a website hosted on hostmonster; I have not looked into their
>>> blog offerings yet. I'd be willing to move to a different host.
>>>
>> On my side, I use a static blog generator : Pelican (blog.getpelican.com)
>> Articles are text files written in reStructuredText or Markdown format.
>> This way,  you can use your prefered text editor.
>> A WEB server serves html/css files generated by Pelican. I use nginx but
>> of course you can use the one you want.
>> Once Pelican configuration is done, writting new articles is easy.
> 
> I also use Pelican for my Ada themed blogs.
> 
> The configuration and content are version controlled at
> https://hg.sr.ht/~tkoskine/ada-tips/
> and https://hg.sr.ht/~tkoskine/arduino-blog/
Finally someone not using github !
Mercurial, very good choice ;)

> 
> The sites themselves are at
>  https://ada.tips/
>  and http://arduino.ada-language.com/
>  [1]
> 
> My sites are self-hosted on a Linux based virtual server, but as the
> content is static, any hosting / cloud service would work fine.
>
I'm also self-hosting, using a RaspberryPi but I'm not happy with this
hardware. Running system and storing data on a µSD-card is not safe.
µSD-card reliability is not good. I'm looking for a better solution.

> 
> [1] For some reason my Arduino blog doesn't have https enabled at the
> moment, probably some configuration issue at www server...
Using certbot (https://certbot.eff.org/), the https configuration is
super easy :)

Nicolas