Tech Stack

In this post, I will briefly explain the tech stack used for my blog.

As a CMS, I chose Ghost 6.0. It is relatively feature-rich, yet surprisingly lightweight, and most importantly, very convenient to use. To make it even better: It's open source and therefore you can self-host it for free! Also, thanks to their great documentation, it is up and running in no time.

Which brings me to hosting. Hosting is done on a Hetzner Shared vCPU, specifically the Ampere CAX11 option. For only € 3,79 a month (less than a coffee nowadays), you get 2 vCPU cores, 4 GB RAM, and 40 GB SSD disk space. It's an ARM CPU, which makes it extremely power-efficient. I have deployed mine in Nuremberg, and it runs Ubuntu 24.04.

Lastly, I also use Cloudflare's free plan for its CDN and security benefits. For a small site like this, this would not have been necessary, but since it's free, why not?