I’m more just trying to get a very quick site set up. I made a super basic page ATM. I’ll revisit it later to try to make something much nicer or hire someone. Multiple folks have mentioned drupal so I’ll have to give it more of a look. Thank you for the feedback. :-)

I don’t know anything about Drupal. I shall look at it. Right now to get up and running I’m thinking of just running a SSG like Pelican. Especially since the Dev is on the Fediverse. :-D

I know a silly reason to pick it, but I’m a Fedi Lover lol. :-)

Thank you for the info though. I’ll definitely look more into it. And thank you so much for the very deeply detailed response! :-)

I’m not doing a publishing platform really. And I can’t seem to get email going. I’ve tried with MailerSend and while I know I can send email, through swaks, Ghost just won’t. Someone told me it only uses MailGun, which I attempted to set up and after 2 days the DNS verification didn’t go through, even though I konw for a fact it was there. And at this point I really don’t want lock in to a specific service if that’s true.

https://www.htmly.com/

That looks really nice! Thank you for the recommendation. Still trying to figure out what to use. :-)

Thank you! I shall look into that!

I’m a sysadmin by trade, I just don’t know the HTML and CSS stuff. :-D Thank you very much for the detail response though! That’s great for folks to find and learn! :-)

Yup, heard of them, used them very briefly. I think it’s time to give it a try again! :-D Thank you!

Oh another interesting one! I shall check into that! Thank you! :-D

Thank you for the suggestion! I’ll look into the themes! :-)

Yes! I can. I’m just TERRIBLE with Dev Stuff and not a fan either. lol But if you have recommends on how to host something like that and make it look ince, I’m all for hearing it! :-)

This is excellently well thought out post and some GREAT questions! I’ll have to go through this more. I’m definitely planning on Self Hosting via Hetzner, I expect it to be static. I don’t honestly expect much traffic, but who the hell knows. :-D I don’t think I’ll need forums as I have the Fediverse! :-D

I’ve heard of Hugo, I’ll check into this one!

This sounds massively interesting! Thank you so much for the recommendation! I’ll look into this! Thank you!

Aral and I have spoken before! Aral used to stream on Owncast where I first met him, do you still do those streams Aral? :-)

Do you think Kitten would be a good use case for BT Free dot org?

No worries in the least! :-) I just want to make sure I’m on the same page as you! :-D Thank you for the info!

I shall check into it! Thank you! :-)

That’s fair. I love Valve’s Steam as well. :-)

You’re referring to https://gohugo.io/ the static site generator?

I don’t LOVE business personally lol :-D but I do love the Fediverse and I’m going to attempt to “business” it at least. :-D NonProfit, because we’ve been down the route of Profit before and we saw where that got us.

Yeah, I’ve heard folks use Wordpress and it has a Fediverse Plugin now. And it can be selfhosted? I’ll check it out! Thank you! :-)