Astro Paper is a great option for blogs. I’ve used it for mine and found it to be blazing fast, easy to add posts, and simple to set up. Plus, you can deploy it on Vercel and route it to your custom domain.
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I had researched into it two years back. Sorry I don’t have information readily available but I will look into it and share if I can find those again.
In the meanwhile, do look into Github Pages particularly with Custom Domain Name. You will get the guides there.
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Thank you all for your ideas.. keep them coming..
I have a static site that I’ve been hosting with netlify. It’s free tier is quite generous so I haven’t had to pay yet. Have set up some basic CI so whenever I push to my git repos, it gets built and deployed automatically.
I think folks have given enough suggestions for you to get going. My one request for any type of coding content is not to use Medium (please!) but other that, let it rip.
Looking forward to your first posts and happy blogging!
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I think the first thing you need to decide is if you would like to spend effort building the website or would rather spend that effort in writing your blogs ? If it is latter, then pick anything from the list which people have shared above. A couple of hundred rupees yearly are not likely to make a huge difference if it potentially leads to decision fatigue.
You should get any standard wordpress hosting offering (lots of options above) or Ghost (if you really like it). Starting with WordPress would also mean that you’ll be able to export and import your posts to a different provider if first one doesn’t work out.
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Bes and easiest exposure of real stuff you can get is buy using some cloud, like AWS, Azure, or DigitalOcean they offer free credits with Github student developer pack.
You can just ask ChatGPT will outline it perfectly for your according to your experience. That’s the best way for you to work with it.
They’ll generally be gone in less than 6 months. It is not a good idea to buy lifetime hosting deals.
It depends on the company. Some reputable ones offer lifetime plans as a marketing exercise with limitations which is generally good for personal use.
Other ones can be dicey. I had one from several years ago that lasted for about 3 years which is about what the plan costed, so didn’t lose much.
Another time a provider lasted for a little over a year, but StackSocial did provide 60% of the money back, which was again about okay for a year’s worth of service.
overkill for a blog, and not friendly enough for a new user
notion pages - I do not recommend but they work too.
What is your purpose for the blog? Do you want to just post stuff, or you want ad revenue as well?
Only static blog. Just some research stuff.
Thank you all.. After a lot of suggestions from you awesome people and with some discussion with my colleagues, I have decided to go with GitHub pages, jekyll and custom domain.
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I purchased my domain from namescheap that came as a suggestion from one of my friends thereafter hosted it on my own homeserver via cloudflare
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look into LowEndTalk forum for good webhosting and offers. Do research before getting them.. some are good , some are not. always have constant backup of the blog.
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Is it true that if we sign up through some referral link for a webhosting plan from Hostinger.com, then we will get extra 20 % discount over the asking price, as shown here Hostinger referral program
I am thinking about buying their “Business Web Hosting Plan” for a duration of 48 Months, so that I can host a few websites there for testing and experimenting purpose. I do not have any commercial motive in my mind, just want to learn the basics and then host the websites for some friends etc. for free. This plan can support upto 50 websites and has 50 GB of storage, which would be plenty for my use case.
If anyone here has got such a referral link for 20 % discount, then please message me.
Or if you are aware of any better alternative hosting plans, which offer similar features as Hostinger.com at better prices, then please let me know.
Thank you.