ghost-static-site-generator VS cuetorials.com

Use a script to convert the Ghost Website into a static site (https://github.com/Fried-Chicken/ghost-static-site-generator)

If you don‘t have dynamic content like a Comment section on your page, you could generate a Static Website from Ghost using this: https://github.com/Fried-Chicken/ghost-static-site-generator

There is a static site generator for Ghost, which is what u/nashosted meant. You can runGhost locally for editing, and then use that to get the static files to host. There's something similar for Wordpress.

TL; DR: What is the most hassle-free way to build a personal blog?

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First, I want to explain why I want to save the hassle and save money: My personal blog is ad-free. I just want to write, so it is not worth spending too much time or money (preferably free) on non-writing behaviors, and I do not have the ability to deal with complex, high-maintenance systems.

I am looking for a way to blog that is effortless and have low maintenance on the server side (like static site generator vs WordPress), a way to write the blog that has a better writing environment on my PC. (Maybe a local CMS or something like that)

Few ways I know so far but they are not perfect

The first one: WP2Static plugin for WordPress (or other plugins by WP2Static author Leon Stafford [1]). They work, but they have some minor issues, they do not export sites perfectly. Other solutions [2] recommended by Leon I have tried: HTTrack has not been actively developed for a long time (since 2017) and does not work anymore, Wget can't crawl the site intact, Shifter, Stratti are expensive (But they run smoothly), HardyPress' cheap plan has only 500MB, Sitesauce's hosting provider Vercel was censored here. (I know, right?)

The second approach is called Headless CMS [3]. But after doing some research, it seems that running a fully local Headless CMS requires writing complex API calls (Strapi, etc). Better solutions are either expensive or free but require an account and have some limitations. I would prefer a completely local and free solution (I am so greedy :-|). NetlifyCMS seems great but it seems like it can only be hosted on Netlify?

The third way is Ghost [4]. Ghost's writing experience looks good, but if deployed to the server, it may require continuous maintenance. Ghost's static plugin [5] seems to be not working perfectly. Ghost's Headless CMS also requires writing API calls.[6][7]

Fourth way: popular services like wordpress.com, Medium, Tumblr, etc. are not accessible in my area, so I can only consider self-hosting.

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[1] https://github.com/leonstafford/

[2] https://wp2static.com/alternatives/

[3] https://jamstack.org/headless-cms/

[4] https://ghost.org

[5] https://github.com/Fried-Chicken/ghost-static-site-generator

[6] https://ghost.org/docs/jamstack/gatsby/

[7] https://www.gatsbyjs.com/docs/sourcing-from-ghost/

Thanks for the information. I saw that there is others generators. This one is a Buster alternative : https://github.com/Fried-Chicken/ghost-static-site-generator But for the moment i focus on learning Ghost. I will check Hosting and static site later.

In order to generate the static site, we'll use the Ghost static site generator. With Linux and macOS, this tool can be used directly. However, it's more challenging when you're running on a Windows machine.

I have a website I maintain, many people tell me it has helped them

https://cuetorials.com

CUE(lang), because devops & yaml engineering has gotten out of hand

I maintain https://cuetorials.com and am heading up the CUE sig-infra group for the time being

If you need help with CUE(lang), we maintain https://cuetorials.com and have experience helping others adopt it at their companies

email is in my HN profile, same handle on GitHub and X

If you are more focused on the devops part, and not implementing a static site generator, then go with Python. For our static sites we use Hugo + GH Actions + Kubernetes (since we have a cluster anyway). There is not really any code involved here (example: https://github.com/hofstadter-io/cuetorials.com)

I'm personally interested to try https://docs.dagger.io/sdk/python/ for something. I used the CUE sdk, but it is effectively deprecated at this point. I use a mix of base, make, python, and CUE fro most devops / devex stuff now. Dagger makes it so local & CI stuff runs the same.

yup, I'm betting the proverbial ranch on CUE :]

I also maintain https://cuetorials.com

I also maintain https://cuetorials.com, bet the farm on CUE or something like that :]