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How do you host your site? I've been using Github Pages which has Jekyll support and that's worked fine, but I'm curious where people host their Hugo sites (or
by fossuser 6y ago
How do you host your site?
I've been using Github Pages which has Jekyll support and that's worked fine, but I'm curious where people host their Hugo sites (or how hosting works when you run the server yourself).
Is it AWS? Dreamhost? or something else? Do you have to manage a proxy or handle load/cost spikes? Can a surge of traffic take down the site?
I haven't read a ton about this, but I'm curious about it. It'd be neat to have full control over my own publishing if something ever happened to github pages.
- nickysielicki 6y agoThat's the beauty of a static site generator -- github just expects valid HMTL to be generated and pushed to a specific branch. Github has no more Jekyll support than it has support for Hugo or a custom static site generator written in bash. I host my hugo-based blog with github pages.
- fossuser 6y agoAh ok - I think I understand. Github does have special Jekyll support, but you just generate the hugo static files locally and only push those up to where Github expects them to be? I think with Jekyll Github will re-generate the static files for you and works with the RSS plugin automatically. Good to know though - might be worth checking out Hugo, thanks!
- nickysielicki 6y agoHuh, I didn't know that Github had that sort of integration. I'm surprised that they're willing to run arbitrary ruby like that.
- cableshaft 6y agoI haven't actually made it live yet, but it's just a static site once it's generated. I'll either push it to my github pages (probably what I'll do), or I'll upload it to my webhost, which I also have (but has been dormant for awhile).