It Took Me a Decade to Find the Perfect Personal Website Stack

Re:It Took Me a Decade to Find the Perfect Personal Website ... by INTPenis on Monday July 10, 2023 @03:43AM (#36663218)

Why is this even on HN? It seems like a terribly confused blog post, about a terribly inefficient stack.

To create any static site, including blogs, I just use hugo, maybe a custom theme, edit it in any editor, including the online one at github/gitlab, once it merges/pushes the CI/CD script is just 3 lines and 2 of those deal with aws.

And of course the pricing depends on the traffic but s3 and cloudfront can handle a lot of traffic before it starts getting out of hand.

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Re:It Took Me a Decade to Find the Perfect Personal Website ... by diffeomorphism on Monday July 10, 2023 @04:29AM (#36663523)

It seems that quite often the article itself is pretty irrelevant if the topic is interesting. Aka "nobody reads the article, only the headline".

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Re:It Took Me a Decade to Find the Perfect Personal Website ... by Fethbita on Monday July 10, 2023 @04:10AM (#36663403)

Hey, I do the same but using Jekyll instead of Hugo, using S3 and CloudFront, I have only been charged 0.00 so far but why do you say that the pricing would get out of hand? Isn’t CloudFront there to cache the results so that the pricing would not get out of hand?

This is my blog post about how I set up my blog: https://blog.burakcankus.com/2023/04/23/getting-a-blog-runni...

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Re:It Took Me a Decade to Find the Perfect Personal Website ... by INTPenis on Monday July 10, 2023 @04:35AM (#36663555)

Well I'm speaking theoretically because I haven't reached that point with any of my sites. Of course you should have a budget alert in AWS first of all.

But theoretically there is no such thing as a free lunch, and bandwidth costs money. Even cache hits in cloudfront generate bandwidth. A cache can't magically transfer text to your clients, it's still using transfer cost outgoing from cloudfront cache servers.

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Re:It Took Me a Decade to Find the Perfect Personal Website ... by vanjajaja1 on Monday July 10, 2023 @04:17AM (#36663448)

Because that link to ghost has a ?ref=

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Re:It Took Me a Decade to Find the Perfect Personal Website ... by pindab0ter on Monday July 10, 2023 @08:30AM (#36665370)

> Why is this even on HN?

I'm no authority on this topic, but maybe because it still sparks interesting conversations.

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