I currently have a Literotica account, but posting a story there is a bit of a wait for 2024. Plus, it also feels a bit like it’s held together with paste. Do you have any favorite fiction hosting websites, or do you self-host?
I would love to self host, but I get a little annoyed by current blog and content management software.
What is that you feel is missing in the self hosted space?
Technology is my day job, and I have a lot of experience with CMSs. I don’t want to spend my free time managing a server to run just one application, so I’m sticking to PHP (I have a few things I run already on it). However, the options in that space are not the best. WordPress and Drupal are just a nightmare of plugins with archaic template concepts. There are more modern options like Craft, but I’ve been through a few major version upgrades on Craft. Having to damn near rebuild the site each time is too much headache.
I’m currently almost leaning towards Grav, but I have mixed feelings about their documentation. It has a lot, but feels a bit sparse on some topics.
A static site generator + GitHub pages sounds like something you might like. They’ll let you run any static site for free (I think) and it’s fully automated.
Honestly, that’s probably the best way to go. I’ve been meaning to try out a few of those.
You could even write all of your HTML by hand if you’re that kind of old school cool :)
Oh, I’ll definitely be writing the templates by hand. I have a preference for hand written CSS.
Actually I just checked ToS and they don’t allow erotica :/
There are lots of low effort ways to host static sites these days though. CDN in front of an S3 bucket, a billion PaaS offerings, etc.
It’s fine. I have a web server. I just didn’t want to run a separate server just to run Ghost on Node.