Host Your Own Blog with Gitlab and Netlify

Re:Host Your Own Blog with Gitlab and Netlify by wildmindwriting on Saturday May 18, 2019 @12:07PM (#19948168)

You know, I've been using the Bitbucket & Netlify ecosystem for my Wild Mind[1] website for a little over a year. I moved from a self-install of WordPress on Digital Ocean to the Victor Hugo[2] boilerplate and then used my own theme. It's been an absolute joy to build with and I've actually been excited to continue to write because the friction to doing so is largely gone. Really can't recommend Netlify or Hugo enough.

[1]: https://www.wildmind.io

[2]: https://github.com/netlify-templates/victor-hugo

Edit: formatting

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Re:Host Your Own Blog with Gitlab and Netlify by indigodaddy on Saturday May 18, 2019 @02:20PM (#19948877)

Your site is very easy to look at. Well done. I read your "about me" and like your writing style as well. And agree, Netlify is pure gold.

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Re:Host Your Own Blog with Gitlab and Netlify by wildmindwriting on Saturday May 18, 2019 @05:03PM (#19949696)

What a lovely comment to read. Thank you! Netlify has taken the pain of maintaining a server away.

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Re:Host Your Own Blog with Gitlab and Netlify by giglamesh on Saturday May 18, 2019 @05:30PM (#19949826)

Beautiful! I've been loving Hugo for a while now, using it for a neighborhood organization, but I've yet to find a non-technical front-end for managing the content. I built this great thing but no-one else in the non-profit can contribute because they (understandably) don't want to or can't take the time to learn Markdown. Have you (or anyone) found a Hugo friendly front end?

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Re:Host Your Own Blog with Gitlab and Netlify by granto on Saturday May 18, 2019 @06:49PM (#19950153)

One click Hugo cms [0] which provides a user friendly front end.

[0] https://github.com/netlify-templates/one-click-hugo-cms

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Re:Host Your Own Blog with Gitlab and Netlify by giglamesh on Saturday May 18, 2019 @10:13PM (#19950985)

Thanks, but we don't have the budget necessary for Netlify Identity. At least last time I checked, it is only free for a very limited number of users.

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Re:Host Your Own Blog with Gitlab and Netlify by blohs on Saturday May 18, 2019 @08:13PM (#19950504)

There is also netlifycms.

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Re:Host Your Own Blog with Gitlab and Netlify by giglamesh on Saturday May 18, 2019 @10:11PM (#19950971)

Thanks. I should have mentioned that I did look into that and found the free version too limited in the number of accounts it allowed. We need to have a small, but > 2 number of users accessing the front end. We have no budget to pay for the non-free netlify-cms.

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Re:Host Your Own Blog with Gitlab and Netlify by tomcam on Saturday May 18, 2019 @05:12PM (#19949745)

That’s one of the best-designed websites I’ve ever seen. Good writing too. But wow, Medium should just hire you to do a redesign.

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Re:Host Your Own Blog with Gitlab and Netlify by theNJR on Saturday May 18, 2019 @12:23PM (#19948240)

I’ve been self hosting word press for my blog since 2006. What made you switch? And why do you like it better?

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Re:Host Your Own Blog with Gitlab and Netlify by wildmindwriting on Saturday May 18, 2019 @05:06PM (#19949715)

I switched because I've done a lot of WordPress development over the years and I wanted to learn something else. Liking it better is because it's a far simpler set-up for me: no database, write in the terminal, don't have to worry about comments or malicious log-in attempts. WordPress is great, don't get me wrong, but using the same platform became boring for me.

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Re:Host Your Own Blog with Gitlab and Netlify by lone_haxx0r on Sunday May 19, 2019 @02:26AM (#19951785)

I'm adding you to my blog list

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Re:Host Your Own Blog with Gitlab and Netlify by egman_ekki on Saturday May 18, 2019 @06:30PM (#19950081)

Enjoyed reading your essays. Thanks.

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