Hello fellow Soylentils, I could use some of your insights and suggestions.
I am looking for a lean, mean, and safe open source solution that implements a small blog where I can rant and rave to my heart's delight to my two followers.
To set the scene, I am not looking for something big and/or unwieldy, which basically rules out the major platforms like Drupal, Joomla and Wordpress. The software is going to be self hosted on my existing web server, which already runs Linux with Apache2, MySQL, PHP, Perl, and PostgreSQL (LAMPPP?) on a Debian platform.
I would like the following features:
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I am not familiar with the minimum resource requirements for running SoylentNews, but if it would not reasonably fit on a single RPi, maybe adding one or two more would suffice?
What suggestions do YOU have for our fellow Soylentil?
(Score: 2) by Chocolate on Monday July 29 2019, @09:53PM
Once you get past the initial So Pretty! OMG! Form data fields! and Plugins! you may find that collecting and using data in a serious manner is a PITA. A friend of mine was spending hours each week fixing mangled HTML in the back end while trying to keep the front end working. It was awesome as a quick standup for formups and user posts but in the end he shut it down due to the time required to administrate it. Another friend went the Drupal way to the point that a coder now maintains the site. That site has an income so it is doing well but it gives you can idea of the potential costs. Quick and easy to set up does not always translate into cheap in the long run. Even phpBB has its issues.
Bit-choco-coin anyone?