recommended blog sites/software?

recommended blog sites/software?

[Stephen Leake]

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.

-- Stephe

Re: recommended blog sites/software?

[Paul Rubin]

Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org> writes:
> I'm thinking of starting a blog about my work with Ada and Emacs. What
> sites/software do you recommend?

Use your own site/domain.  For a low traffic blog, cheap shared hosting
is fine.  For software, use Emacs of course.  This looks interesting:

https://ahungry.com/blog/2013-04-01-blogging-with-org-mode.html

Re: recommended blog sites/software?

[Luke A. Guest]

On 22/05/2020 19:25, Stephen Leake wrote:
> 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.
> 
> -- Stephe
> 

Linode is pretty cheap for a basic nano vps. You can control what you
install.

Re: recommended blog sites/software?

[Stéphane Rivière]

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?

Software : a site in Ada ? ;)

https://blog.vacs.fr
https://github.com/stcarrez/ada-awa/wiki/Ada-Web-Application
https://www.ada-france.org (code here : https://github.com/Ada-France)

-- 
Be Seeing You
Number Six

Re: recommended blog sites/software?

[Optikos]

On Friday, May 22, 2020 at 1:25:32 PM UTC-5, Stephen Leake wrote:
> 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.
> 
> -- Stephe

Assuming that you have adequate Linux skills, I recommend that you host your own instance of a WWW server (preferably coded in Ada) on Amazon EC2 or Microsoft Azure (or one of the lesser tier, if you have existing ties to them:  Google Compute, IBM Cloud, Oracle Cloud).  The need for you as a tech professional to hire a WWW hosting service & its Word Press infrastructure for a blog is so year 2003 or so, not the current era.

Re: recommended blog sites/software?

[DrPi]

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.

Nicolas

> -- Stephe
> 

Re: recommended blog sites/software?

[Tero Koskinen]

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/

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.

> Nicolas
> 
>> -- Stephe
>>
> 

-Tero

[1] For some reason my Arduino blog doesn't have https enabled at the 
moment, probably some configuration issue at www server...

Re: recommended blog sites/software?

[DrPi]

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

Re: recommended blog sites/software?

[Björn Lundin]

Den 2020-05-25 kl. 07:31, skrev DrPi:
> 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.

setup /boot on the card, and use an usb-disk for /


I've done that for 3-4 years now.
backup as always

I think rpi3 and rpi3+ can boot from usb - rpi 4 is not there just yet

-- 
Björn

Re: recommended blog sites/software?

[DrPi]

Le 25/05/2020 à 21:59, Björn Lundin a écrit :
> Den 2020-05-25 kl. 07:31, skrev DrPi:
>> 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.
> 
> setup /boot on the card, and use an usb-disk for /
I don't like this solution either. It is complex to setup, not much more
reliable (µSD card still there and USB is another point of failure) and
not power efficient.

> 
> 
> I've done that for 3-4 years now.
> backup as always
> 
> I think rpi3 and rpi3+ can boot from usb - rpi 4 is not there just yet
> 

Re: recommended blog sites/software?

[Björn Lundin]

Den 2020-05-26 kl. 17:46, skrev DrPi:
> Le 25/05/2020 à 21:59, Björn Lundin a écrit :
>> Den 2020-05-25 kl. 07:31, skrev DrPi:
>>> 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.
>>
>> setup /boot on the card, and use an usb-disk for /
> I don't like this solution either. It is complex to setup, not much more
> reliable (µSD card still there and USB is another point of failure) and
> not power efficient.
> 

Well, complexity is in the eye of the beholder.
With /boot on sd - it is only used at boot.

But as i pointed out in my post,
rp3 and rp3+ can boot from usb.
Then you don't need sd-card at all.

Why would USB itself break before the harddrive?
Power efficiency was not part of your original post.
But a harddrive - or ssd  - powered by USB - is that worse than anything 
else power wise?

Anyway - this is not related to Ada anymore

-- 
Björn

Re: recommended blog sites/software?

[Optikos]

On Friday, May 22, 2020 at 1:25:32 PM UTC-5, Stephen Leake wrote:
> 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.
> 
> -- Stephe

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/WindowsGuide/EC2Win_CreateWordPressBlog.html

At the URL below are instructions for installing WordPress on a Windows 10 instance on Amazon EC2.  Installing WordPress or other blogging infrastructure on Linux has roughly analogous steps.  You could start out at the least expensive type of EC2 instance (at the least expensive Amazon EC2 region, or the Amazon EC2 region that has the best system of law) and then migrate to bigger or more-reserved instances on EC2 as your blog's traffic out grows the minimum one that you picked.  Going with Amazon's own flavor of Linux on Amazon's own custom-designed ARM servers in the noncoastal regions of the USA typically is the cheapest.  Please consult a lawyer in the appropriate jurisdiction about which features of your blog need to consider EU's GPDR, which might arise if you permit accounts to post replies/comments to your blog postings.  Likewise for Microsoft Azure except that Qualcomm & Cavium makes Azure's ARM servers' processors.  Of course, you can choose AMD or Intel processors too for incrementally higher price, if x86-64 ISA is needed; I have not checked whether the ARM-ISA targets emitted by GNAT are 100% compatible with either Amazon's Graviton ARM processors or whichever mixture of ARM processors Azure have deployed, assuming that you are writing your blog in Ada instead of using e.g. WordPress.

At the URLs below are the various pricings of Amazon EC2 instances and Microsoft Azure instances at various geographic regions:

EC2:
https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/spot/pricing

Azure:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/virtual-machines/linux

Re: recommended blog sites/software?

[Jesper Quorning]

You can have simple static pages hosted by GitHub by making af project named <your-account-name>.github.io like [1].

Write pages in markup language and it is checked and deployed when you do 'git push' [2].

[1] https://github.com/jquorning/jquorning.github.io
[2] https://help.github.com/en/github/working-with-github-pages

/Jesper