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I use Jekyll for most of my blogs. For my company's, we needed multiple authors including non-technical people, so we couldn't use git for that. I recently discovered Ghost which I highly recommend:

* https://ghost.org/

* Kickstarted in 2013

* Markdown-based

* Open source, self-hostable

* Hosted solution (https://ghost.org/pricing/) with support for your own domain name

* Beautiful themes out of the box with custom css/js on an article, site-wide or theme level

* Third party static site generation tools (https://github.com/axitkhurana/buster/, https://github.com/lexoyo/static-ghost)

Example blog (default theme): https://blog.ghost.org/




I've been using Ghost for a few years now, mostly because it interested me and looked nice to use. I've gone through a bunch of static blog generators and while they were cool (and cheap) I just really like the ability to login to my site, start drafting, have it auto-save and come back to it later. I'm not super fussed about having it version controlled, though I can export all my data (minus images) into a JSON format and version control that if I want.

I self host on the lowest Digital Ocean droplet which is now $5/mo and is plenty for my small time blog and I'm happy to pay $5/mo for the delight of using Ghost. Also with a cron job I can auto-update every few days and get the latest features without touching the box.

Ghost will auto-roll back if an update fails which is nice and I don't have that many viewers so if it goes down I don't mind so much right now.

A final bonus is that it uses handlebars for it's theme creation and rendering. I'm a node dev who uses handlebars for my own projects so editing my theme is a breeze.




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