> I spent a week tinkering with 11ty and loved a lot of my time with it and would love to explore it more, but after a few days it ended up being far too comple

> I spent a week tinkering with 11ty and loved a lot of my time with it and would love to explore it more, but after a few days it ended up being far too complex Yes, unfortunately is not easy, if you want a more fast and easy way is use GitHub Pages. With Jekyll is very fast to set up (like 15-20 mins), I think it's the same with Hugo (I've never deleved in Hugo). You don't have the full control on your content like if it's hosted on your server, because you have to rely on GitHub, but you have your content and is a lot better than any other blogging platform and is also easier to maintain. For me was a goal to understand how Jekyll works self-hosted, I love learn new thing, that's also why I moved my blog to my VPS.