Just curious to know. I know tumblr and posterous are really good if you don't want spend time managing the hosting.<p>But otherwise, what do you use to host your personal pages/blogs. A shared host, or VPS, or any other alternative?
I use nearlyFreeSpeech.net, a simple and very cheap webhost: billed by the cent, and 10$ lasted me years. For the software, I wrote my own blog 'engine'(s).<p>Just started using ___.sh: a 42 lines, recursive, multimarkdown, sed & bash static html blog 'engine'. (<a href="http://github.com/nicolasH/frankensteins" rel="nofollow">http://github.com/nicolasH/frankensteins</a>). I have the sources for my posts in three places : my computer, github and the web host.<p>I host these two sites there :
<a href="http://www.niconomicon.net" rel="nofollow">http://www.niconomicon.net</a>
<a href="http://www.displayator.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.displayator.com</a>
App Engine has been simply excellent. I've got a $5 limit on possible daily charges and mostly stacked in the bandwidth areas.<p>Really like the admin interface, the sensible Python, and 'appcfg.py upload .' is a lot like waiting for C to compile!<p>Charges so far have been $0.00 and, admittedly, traffic has been low. But should a /.otting come along I might have to shell out a couple of bucks (bfd!).
tl;dr: Github Pages, using Jekyll<p>Recently, I wanted to start writing occasional posts, and wanted to split my original content off of my Tumblr (which I'd use to post "things I've found online that I like"). I played around with Jekyll and Github's hosted space, where they run Github Pages, and have been really happy with it.
<a href="https://www.hostsharing.net/" rel="nofollow">https://www.hostsharing.net/</a><p>That's a co-operative, non-profit hosting provider. It works kind of like car sharing: Everyone pays a monthly fee, based on the resources he/she uses, and that is used to fund hardware, colocation costs, domain registration etc. Administration is done by a team of volunteers, but totally transparent with discussions on mailing lists and phone conferences. A lot of the members are IT freelancers (mostly Java EE developers). Resellers are also welcome. Currently there are about 200 members.<p>Based in Germany, but open to anyone in Europe. The webpages are currently only available in German, but that doesn't mean that people who speak a different language aren't welcome. It's just that noone has found the time yet to translate everything.
I use HostGator for my personal hosting and for various projects. As for my actual personal domain (timjahn.com), I recently switched it to direct to a simple flavors.me landing page.<p>I like the idea of people quickly getting a snapshot of me and my activities that way.
I use Tumblr for my blog, About.me for my bio, LinkedIn for my resume, and Twitter.com for people get in touch. When I have to host anything myself I use MediaTemple.
Within a year I’ve cycled through GitHub Pages, my VPS on Rackspace and Tumblr. I guess GitHub Pages and Rackspace were one-and-the-same since I used Jekyll for both.