[staysaasy]

We host our blog using solely off-the-shelf tools, and I love the stack that we use. I highly recommend it if you're looking for a stack with 100% control and are ok with some light technical wrangling (eg using Git):

- Jekyll for static site generation https://jekyllrb.com/

- We use the Hydeout Jekyll theme, you can see how it looks on our blog: http://staysaasy.com/. What you see is out-of-the-box plus ~30 lines of custom CSS.

- Git for storing our content

- Gitlab for CI/CD and hosting

- GoDaddy for domain management

We manage all of the content in Git, and push it when it's ready. It's really easy. You can even run "code reviews" on posts if you like.

[MaxBarraclough]

All sounds good apart from GoDaddy. Why not use a more reputable registrar?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4362478

[staysaasy]

Just because it's what we already used. It's the most dispensable part of the stack (and arguably shouldn't even be considered part of our stack at all).

[MaxBarraclough]

> arguably shouldn't even be considered part of our stack at all

Why not? If your registrar screws you over, it's game over. It's a critical dependency.

[res0nat0r]

Folks also seem to forget that an s3 bucket can host your static website, will cost mostly pennies and pretty much never go down.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/WebsiteHosti...

[staysaasy]

Very true. In the setup listed above we use Gitlab for hosting and it's 100% free with a fairly non-technical interface. If you're going for static hosting of raw pages Netlify has a folder drag&drop hosting option that's great as well.