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Neil Anuskiewicz
Neil Anuskiewicz
11,007 Points
Posted by Neil Anuskiewicz
Neil Anuskiewicz
11,007 Points

easy to setup blogging platform that you recommend?

I feel sort of guilty for wanting easy. I'm a Treehouse student. I'm supposed to build my own damn blogging platform... from scratch.

I've created a LinkedIn group a topic found interesting: "DNS and Application Ecosystem for Small Businesses"

I'd like to quickly start a blog to support the group. Any recommendations? I have domains hosted through Bluehost but I don't need to host my blog there nor do I even need to use a domain name. I'm going to switch to a more developer friendly hosting provider soon anyway.

So I'm open to any suggestions. I want a clean, uncluttered look to my blog but not so simple that I can't easily include images and videos here and there.

Is WP the way to go? I've used it before and it works well enough. It's a bit bloated for what I need to do here, which isn't at all fancy.

Thank you.

2 Answers

ayezee33
ayezee33
16,096 Points
ayezee33
ayezee33
16,096 Points

My first instinct was to recommend WP. Like you said it might be a little robust for what you need (but it offers scalability if you need it).

There are more simple CMS out there. You could create some static HTML pages and push them to GitHub and use Jekyll [https://jekyllrb.com/] for the blog (the advantages to this are, it's FREE, it's easy to set up, there are templates to make it look nice).

I haven't used this in a while but the other simple CMS that came to mind was Couch CMS http://www.couchcms.com/

Neil Anuskiewicz
Neil Anuskiewicz
11,007 Points
Neil Anuskiewicz
Neil Anuskiewicz
11,007 Points

By the way, here's what I ended up choosing to start a technical blog: DIgital Ocean - Hosting for developers Centos 7 distro - It's a good distro for web servers. Nginx - Fast, lightweight web server Ghost - Publishing (blogging) platform built on Node.js. Fast and intuitive interface.

I highly recommend this stack as it's a pleasure to work with.