New comment by somada141 in "Host Your Own Blog with Gitlab and Netlify"

I do that myself for a personal travel-blog I recently started (https://blog.nomakuma.com/) entirely for free using: - GitHub - Hugo with the Casper-Two theme (https://github.com/eueung/hugo-casper-two) - Netlify - TinyLetter (https://tinyletter.com/) for newsletter signups and distribution - Disqus for comments - Forestry (https://forestry.io/) to allow for less-technically inclined people to author posts without touching Git

I think the appeal is that you have complete control over your site/blog and should you choose to somehow monetise the content, e.g., adding singups and subscriptions to premium content or even ads, you can have complete control. With a combination like this you start at 0$/m for ever (or at least until Netlify stops offering free services) and take it from there. I probably won't do this for a travel-blog but its nice to have the choice and to be honest I wanted to try out a combination of the tech mentioned above and see how far I can take it for 0$.

I still have an old blog on Wordpress (http://pyscience.wordpress.com) and its done very well but I never liked the fact that Wordpress just sticks ads wherever it wants to unless I get the premium subscription.

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