Re:Building a Kickass Portfolio
by kickscondor on Friday August 03, 2018 @12:11PM
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Hey thanks! Added you to the directory https://www.kickscondor.com/hrefhunt/
Re:Building a Kickass Portfolio
by ihattendorf on Thursday August 02, 2018 @10:29PM
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Definitely look into something like S3 + CloudFront, or Netlify if you don't want to set any of that up yourself.
Re:Building a Kickass Portfolio
by Brajeshwar on Thursday August 02, 2018 @11:03PM
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Yes, S3 + CloudFront. I host a bunch of domains, including few whose properties/IP/company was acquired. The monthly for the static hosting is less than a dollar a month.
Cloudflare > CloudFront + S3 (sometimes just S3 responding to Cloudflare's request). I could have done Route53 but I've lots of other domains managed by Cloudflare.
I have a single instance Jekyll setup that spits out a bunch of index.html files for all the domains, including my primary personal[1]. To automate further, the setup runs within a few NPM modules, and gulp does the compile and build. When I need to change/update something, I let it build and then deploy to the primary S3 Bucket. The deployment is done with the S3_website[2] Gem.
Been running this setup for over 3 years or so. I can strip away everything and just stay with the minimal Jekyll setup and manually upload the files.
Static site built with hugo, hosted on a 5$/month DigitalOcean droplet, using LetsEncrypt for TLS. Been considering some other hosting options that might be cheaper since I barely get any traffic, other than a couple times my posts went viral.
Huge respect to those that can consistently push out content. I have a big list of articles I want to write, but always lose motivation when it comes down to it. Maybe I'm a slow writer, it seems to take me an entire day to write something I'm proud to share.