Today we are launching Ecency Blogs: your own hosted blog, on your own subdomain, powered by the content you already own on Hive.
Here is the short version. For $2 a month you get a clean personal blog at yourname.blogs.ecency.com. It is built from your Hive posts, so if you already publish through Ecency, your site exists the moment you turn it on. Pay by card, or pay on-chain with 2 HBD and a simple memo. Stack as many months as you like in one payment. Want the address to be fully your own? Point your own custom domain at it for $1 a month more.
Fair question. The answer is that Ecency Blogs is not hosting in the way the word usually means.
With a normal blog host, the host has your content and you have a subscription. Stop paying, or watch the company fold and your site is gone, along with every post on it. The content was only ever a tenant.
Ecency Blogs inverts that. Your posts live on the Hive blockchain, under keys that you hold, exactly as they do today. The blog is a presentation layer: a fast, focused, personal site wrapped around content that already belongs to you. If you stop paying, the site goes dormant and you lose nothing. Every post remains on Hive, readable through Ecency or any other Hive app and your subdomain is waiting if you come back.
It is the first blog host we know of where the content is designed to outlive the host. Including us.
Your own address. yourname.blogs.ecency.com is yours: a clean home for your writing that you can put on a business card, in a bio, or at the top of a resume. You can also point your own custom domain at it, so the address is entirely your own.
Your archive, instantly. No importing, no migration scripts, no copy-paste weekend. The posts you have written on Hive are the site. New posts appear on your blog as you publish them.
A reader-first page. No ads sold against your writing, no engagement chrome, no feed mechanics. Just your posts, presented the way personal blogs used to look before everything became a platform.
The Hive layer, intact. Your posts keep earning crypto rewards from the Hive reward pool, keep their comments and votes, and stay connected to the audience you have built. The blog adds a front door. It does not fork your content.
Two ways to pay, because our users live in two worlds.
By card. $2 a month, ordinary checkout, no crypto required at any step. If you are coming from a conventional blog host, nothing about the payment will feel unfamiliar.
With HBD, on-chain. Send 2 HBD with the payment memo and your month is active. No card, no bank, no account with a payment processor. If you earn on Hive, you can pay for your blog with what your writing earned.
Either way, months stack. Pay for one month or a year up front, whatever suits you.
Turning on a blog is deliberately boring: choose your subdomain, pay for your first month, done. Your existing posts populate the site immediately. If you are brand new to Hive, the $2.99 premium signup gets you a ready-made account with keys emailed to you and from there the blog is one step away.
For Hive users, it is the personal site you kept meaning to set up: a place to send people that is unmistakably yours, without maintaining a server or a static site generator.
For bloggers coming from the traditional web, it is a $2 blog with a property no incumbent can offer: permanence that does not depend on the company behind it. You get an ordinary blog with an extraordinary failure mode. The host can vanish and your writing survives.
Ecency Blogs is live now. Claim your subdomain at https://ecency.com/hosting.
Your blog, your keys and now, your address.
