What are you trying to do?

  • Static files? Then GitLab/GitHub pages will be fine. There are also many providers like Netlify that specialized in static sites.
  • “Live” application like self-hosted WordPress? Then you will need to find a server provider where you can configure and run it.
  • Managed hosting of open source software. If you don’t want to maintain the blog software yourself it is pretty easy to find people that host common blogging software like https://wordpress.com.
  • SaaS blogging. Then you just sign up like https://medium.com, https://blogger.com or https://tumblr.com
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have you looked at the community? this is c/privacy and they recommended blogger lol

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Because in spite of the question (“private host” as opposed to “privacy friendly host”), people have commented in the context of privacy (probably because of the community we’re on); and in that context, the mere mention of github or gitlab is met with downvotes.

IMHO using github or gitlab for that isn’t much of a concern privacy wise (at least not more than browsing a website from the companies behind those services), but it surely is when it comes to data integrity (which is a totally separate concern, but people often confuse it with privacy, like they also do with security). I would not trust either service with that.

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why’d this get downvotes

Recommending Medium and Blogger in a privacy community is terrible advice. It’s disappointing that this is actually getting upvoted.

Edit: The other two comments provide actual private recommendations. This comment would be fine outside a privacy community.

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