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Ask HN: If you were a grad student writing a blog, where would you host it?

3 skadamou 5 8/15/2025, 3:51:41 PM

I'm looking for some input from the bloggers/blog enjoyers on this forum for what ya'll think is the best way to run a personal blog. I'm open to building it from scratch myself and self hosting on my residential network but I know that comes with some tradeoffs.

TL;DR: What is your advice for a new grad student launching a blog?

Comments (5)

Bender · 1h ago

Are you asking for something that is low cost or free? as in a starving student. If so then probably NeoCities [1]. Some have used github but some do not like the idea that Microsoft control it.

[1] - https://neocities.org/

skadamou · 1h ago

Yes, absolutely low cost/free is what I'm looking for. Thank you for the suggestion!

duxup · 1h ago

Not a blogger and not a lot of interest in blogging infrastructure. I'd probably pick Cloudflare Pages https://pages.cloudflare.com/ and just go with some plain old html files and css.

fcpguru · 1h ago

github pages! free

chickenzzzzu · 1h ago

I would recommend creating a "cloud account" at a place like AWS or Hetzner or etc. Create an Ubuntu server or similar, install Spring Boot and begin serving your webpages to the world from an IP address. You can also bring in a domain name if you want to.

All told, it's probably $9 a month maximum, and will give you some very good skills and a large amount of freedom.