Comment systems for static pages (Jekyll)?

inspxtr@lemmy.world to Selfhosted@lemmy.world – 17 points –

I'm very new to self host, so apologies if I say things wrong.

Anyway, I'm looking for comment systems that I can deploy to fly.io (or similar systems but not Heroku) for my static pages (Jekyll) that comes with Codeberg/Sourcehut pages. I found staticman but it assumes Github/Gitlab.

Thanks!

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The folks at Jekyll seem to recommend Talkyard:

https://jekyllrb.com/resources/

I'm not super familiar with this as I was just looking into it myself from your post but figured I'd highlight that for ya.

Edit: seems their link is broken so here's a working one:

https://blog-comments.talkyard.io/

thanks, and that’s great that this can be used for other static pages as well.

stupid general question: in the “install it yourself” guide, they say that this needs to be run on a VPS, for example with DigitalOcean. I’m thinking of deploying on fly.io, which I understand is like an alternative for Heroku. Is there a conceptual difference between these types of solutions (DigitalOcean vs fly.io for example) that might affect hosting?