Hugo blog now hosted on Netlify
This blog uses Hugo and was previously hosted on Amazon S3 storage. The traffic and hence the costs were minimal (zero).
After recently having to completely re-install Arch Linux after an idiotic mistake, I realised that Hugo was out of date, my Hugo theme was out of date and I’d forgotten precisely how the deployment to S3 actually worked.
I was toying with taking my ball home in a mindless fit of pique, migrating 1,000 posts to Eleventy and I also looked at the Publii static site CMS with interest.
However, that would have been foolish as I already had a Hugo blog that worked fine. The problem was I never actually used it. It’s frictionless blogging but you have to actually produce content occasionally. The friction (for me at least) is typing the words in - not building, previewing and publishing the site.
So, in the great blog unification process, I resurrected all my historical blog posts, my very limited content on write.as and deposited the lot into Hugo.
I changed the theme to PaperMod as it was a modern, clean, minimal, single column theme reminiscent of write.as.
The migration was pretty straightforward as all the existing posts were already in Markdown format and the YAML front matter just needed tweaking.
As I had used Hugo and Netlify for a friend’s conventional Web site, I took the opportunity to switch the blog from S3 to Netlify which gives me SSL support and is generally a ‘one click’ operation to push the content to GitHub and then publish on Netlify.