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If it's just a personal website, you might find it easier to use GitHub Pages (or GitLab's equivalent) and Cloudflare. Both are free for any reasonable personal
by snazz 7y ago
If it's just a personal website, you might find it easier to use GitHub Pages (or GitLab's equivalent) and Cloudflare. Both are free for any reasonable personal website usage.
If you don't want to run a build of your static site generator on your computer and upload the result to GitHub every time you make a change, you can just use Jekyll and GitHub will build it for you. I think GitLab supports other static site generators as well. This technique is how https://www.snazz.xyz https://www.snazz.xyz works.
- guu 7y agoYes, https://netlify.com https://netlify.com is great for this too and supports most static site generators.
- judge2020 7y agoCF is not necessary anymore for SSL since GH can issue LetsEncrypt certificates automatically. https://help.github.com/en/github/working-with-github-pages/securing-your-github-pages-site-with-https https://help.github.com/en/github/working-with-github-pages/...
- snazz 7y agoTrue. I find that the other features (analytics, better DNS interface, caching) make it worthwhile for me. Also, the original article mentioned CloudFront.