Mastodawn

Toying with the idea of making a second website, and so I'm considering some of my options for hosting it. Github won't let me host another site for free. It looks like Gitlab has a pretty good service? It looks like I can do as many as I like for free, or am I mistaken?

Any other recommendations I should check out? I'm planning on just doing a static site, either WordPress¹ or 11ty. Needs to be free or dirt cheap, and if they're not evil, that's ideal.

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¹ Is WordPress actually good? It seems widely used even by some FOSS and tech people? I've only ever used 11ty, but I'm also trying to consider the viability of something that non-technical folks can interact with too.

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Shadow53 1d ago

@riverpunk You might know this already, but WordPress isn't "static" in the way 11ty is. IIRC, 11th generates HTML files that you upload to be served directly, while WordPress uses PHP and a database to dynamically generate HTML when a page is visited.

If you want a Static Site Builder, look at https://jamstack.org/generators/ or https://github.com/myles/awesome-static-generators

I've only used Hugo and Zola (my current).

For hosting, https://pgs.sh offers a free tier. GitLab Pages and CodeBerg pages are also options.

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Shadow53 1d ago

@riverpunk If you want a standard blog, maybe @write_as is an option for you? It's paid only right now, but IIRC has good ActivityPub integration?

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River

@shadow53 I've seen write.as, it's interesting. Too simple for my taste. I want my website to actually look like something. I'm a big fan of playing with HTML templates.

I want to be able to create the whole site + template, and then give a login to somebody less technical and they're able to edit text and create posts on the site.