Hosting a static site

I’ve wanted to host a simple little website for many years now, but never had the inclination to invest too much (be it in terms of time, money or thought) into it - the obvious solution was to serve some kind of pre-baked static site, removing the need for any real kind of infrastructure maintenance, leaving me to worry about “content” (whatever that means). I’ve gone through various systems in the past - trials and experimentation with most workflows including fully-hosted Wordpress; locally run static-site generators with the output synced to a traditional webhost; and even writing my own static site generator that was little more than glue around common libraries for parsing markdown. ...

17 June 2023 · Edd Armitage