[HN Gopher] Show HN: I built an open-source web hosting platform... ___________________________________________________________________ Show HN: I built an open-source web hosting platform for static sites HI Hacker News! I'm very excited to show you this project I have been working on, MarkdownSite.com. For folks who interact with the website, it is a web hosting platform where you can add your repository and have a website built from the `public/` directory. Files in `site/` with an `.md` extension are rendered from markdown to HTML, and the website is then available at a random subdomain. For folks that set up their own instance, it can also become a framework for customized building. The entire project is open source and I tried my best to document and explain the structure of the machines and how they interact in various mermaid graphs in the readme files under the `devops/` folder. There is still a lot of work to be done, I hope that you find this useful. It's been super fun to work on! Author : symkat Score : 22 points Date : 2022-03-14 18:57 UTC (4 hours ago) (HTM) web link (github.com) (TXT) w3m dump (github.com) | HeckFeck wrote: | Sweet, a roll-your-own Geocities but in Markdown! I'd like it if | this approach took off for personal websites/blogs/social media. | Maybe share it with some of those lists of self-hosted | alternatives? Like here: https://github.com/awesome- | selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted | | I've actually been working on my own static website builder in | Perl too - though it is nowhere near as sophisticated as a whole | hosting platform. Being able to feed these beasts directories of | text files, hitting enter and watching it do all the work (using | _your_ work) is a pleasure all on its own. | [deleted] ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-03-14 23:00 UTC)