I just set up my own blog last week that's hosted on a $5/mo digitalocean droplet and uses cloudflare as a CDN and to provide SSL support. It's definitely more

I just set up my own blog last week that's hosted on a $5/mo digitalocean droplet and uses cloudflare as a CDN and to provide SSL support. It's definitely more complex than raw HTML purists would prefer. I'm using NextJS with static site generation to generate static HTML from my React code. I'm also using MDX to automatically compile my articles, which are written in Markdown but I can embed React components in them. https://wcedmisten.fyi https://wcedmisten.fyi Source is available at the bottom of the page. All feedback welcome!