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Shannon Kay@shannonkay@bookstodon.com

I was born the day that Reading Rainbow began. 📚

💕 Books, Tech, Coffee, Photography
💍 Married to @jerrodputman
👧🏼 👦🏼 👧🏼 Mom to 3 amazing kids.
📍Orange County, CA
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Joined: 2026-08-21 17:33:51
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Shannon Kay@shannonkay@bookstodon.com (2026-08-22 02:03:13)
@olly 

I agree that hosted services are much better for most bloggers, and that a key point is having the portability of a personal domain name and data portability. 

I know that "regular" people are not going to do most of the weird things that I choose to do, so I go around testing web hosts and whatnot for beginners.

Reply to @olly@indieweb.social
Shannon Kay@shannonkay@bookstodon.com (2026-08-22 02:00:19)
@olly @sylvia 
Oh, there are never no dependencies. I do host from a NAS in my living room, but I rely on DDNS service, the local ISP, etc. 

Jekyll is relatively complex, and sometimes I do wonder if I should move my blog to something with less barrier to update.

What I meant for a non-blog static site was that it's much simpler to write some basic HTML/CSS than to run a static site generator, and a relative beginner can write a basic page and upload to a web host.

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Shannon Kay@shannonkay@bookstodon.com (2026-08-21 16:44:33)
@sylvia @olly 
I agree, a service or premade software is definitely better for most people who want to make a blog.

But for a non-blog website, the barrier to entry is quite low, even for a fairly "hardcore indie web" standard.

I guess I'm hardcore indieweb myself on my personal website. It's static, handwritten, and hosted from home. I use Jekyll for my blog, though.