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by pchal 3037 days ago
The best choices currently I think are:

-- Ghost (expensive but dead simple to apply themes) or

-- Hugo + Netflify (for hosting and automatically publishing your site when you push to your repo) + Forestry.io (for a nice front end to edit your posts if you want to avoid the command line)

I care about Markdown plus MathJax support (for math notation) and both these options support that.
2 comments
philfrasty 3037 days ago
Do you know who Ghost's intended target audience is? Their pricing at $29 (monthly) for hosting a simple blog seems bizarre when a DO droplet with pre-configured Wordpress is $5 (lots of other simpler WP hosting services out there).

Edit: ok, pricing page says „For professional bloggers“

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johnonolan 3037 days ago
Our customers are predominantly businesses and professional users who are quite happy to pay for a fully managed service and automation to save themselves time and energy. It's exactly the same as how you can self-host WordPress or Discourse for $5 on DigitalOcean, or you can find managed services at Discourse.org and WPEngine.com for $29-$99

If you're a developer and you want to just DIY - then you can. If you'd rather just pay someone else to manage the entire thing for you - then you can.

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artemis73 3036 days ago
Ghost seems to be a bit expensive for my taste. Especially if you weigh it in my currency (INR). I'll consider it once I have my VPS set up but I'm leaning towards Hugo for now. Netlify is amazing :D

Thank you for Forestry though! Didn't know about it. Will definitely come in handy when I can't get to my personal laptop.

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