Looking For A Self-hostable Platform For Sharing Datasets

Objective:

I’m looking to create a website intended to gather together and release datasets for a specific theme (impact investing).

These would be a mixture of unamened open access datasets and a few with my edits. CSV and JSON mostly.

It would be cool to also be able to add blog posts with live data object embeds. And maybe (this is a “stretch feature” idea) include a sandbox for querying a read-only database. But the essential elements would be sharing datasets in a way that’s better than Github (no objection to that but I want to give potential visitors a specific site to access).

I tried setting up CKAN today on a VPS and found it a lot of work to get running. I think something a little simpler from an admin perspective would make more sense.

It’s a not-for-profit personal project so I’d like to keep costs reasonable.

Any suggestions for platforms, hosting, or both much appreciated!