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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Michał Kucharczyk

@riverpunk If you are fediverse person, who is looking for a cheep, foss-friendly CMS, that can be set in away that is aligned with your values, it's very likely that "Ghost CMS" is what you are asking for. You'll need to make some choices between very cheep and very easy to set up (depending on how you choose to host it). What's the purpose of the site?

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River 3d ago

@michal_kucharczyk no specific ideas yet, but I've been wanting to do some kind of publication site that puts up posts from an array of several contributing authors. All as a tiny project designed to be just for fun and sillies.

Step one I need to actually get some other bloggers/authors who are interested...

Yeah tbh IDK, I just wanna really nail down the process for running a site that isn't prohibitively difficult for regular folks to make adjustments to as needed.

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Michał Kucharczyk 3d ago

@riverpunk I stand by the Ghost CMS then. The interface is as intuitive as it gets. You can invite multiple people with multiple roles (see picture). The website supports subscribing to your newsletter with alerts whenever you or other contributors subscribe practically out of the box. And you can send the same info to the fedie. If you ever choose to add the paid subscribers tier, it's super easy. Barely an inconvenience.

Here is the Ghost "Explore" where you can see some pages created with it: https://explore.ghost.org
it should give you a good picture, if this is the result you are hoping for.