I use github pages for my blog, disqus for comments. Pages is just a convenient place to host - I have my entries in a git repo, the pages are statically generated with Jekyll, I&#x27;m sure I could run it myself if github started doing anything onerous. For comments it&#x27;s just become too hard to self-host anything given how much spam there is, so I&#x27;ve given in and use disqus in the same way that I&#x27;ve stopped self-hosting email and use gmail.