looking for lightweight ghost blog alternative (feddit.org)

submitted 1 week ago by simon574@feddit.org to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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My blog is currently running on Ghost 1.0 I'm blogging for almost 20 years, started with blogger.com I think, eventually migrated to self-hosted Ghost when it was pretty new and lightweight. I can host anything that runs on Linux, I can even use Docker.

I don't want to migrate to the latest Ghost version because it feels very enterprisey now, needs a lot of resources on the server and uses a complex data format instead of Markdown. I don't need monetization either.

My requirements are:

possible to migrate ~30-40 Markdown posts + embedded images from Ghost 1.0
future proof, i.e. simple data format so I don't get locked in
low RAM/CPU usage
easy maintenance, creating posts, backups, etc
RSS support

I'll be very grateful for any suggestions.

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[-] johntash@eviltoast.org 2 points 5 days ago

Check out Zola too.

I dont remember why now, but it was at the top of my list when researching ssgs a while back for rewriting my site.

[-] simon574@feddit.org 1 points 5 days ago

Thanks! I've already checked it out, and it looks promising. From what I've seen so far it's similar to Hugo but written in Rust instead of Go.

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