[teekay]

I use Eleventy for my technical blog, and self-hosted Ghost for my tango music blog. I plan to migrate from Ghost to Eleventy such that my website is 100% static.

Eleventy is great for me because it's written in Javascript and I use Javascript every day for work. Very fast and capable. Can't say how it compares to other static site generators because it's the first one I've used.

My setup includes nginx and Letsencrypt, and that's pretty much it. The Ghost blog uses a SQLite database.

I wouldn't blog on any third-party service since they could kick me out anytime for any reason. My website is my digital garden. I don't monetize it, don't run ads there, don't sell anything. No reason to run it anywhere but on my own server.