https://eddarmitage.com/posts/index.htmlRecent content in Posts on Edd Armitage - Software EngineerHugoen-gbSat, 17 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://eddarmitage.com/2023/06/hosting-a-static-site.htmlSat, 17 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://eddarmitage.com/2023/06/hosting-a-static-site.html<p>I&rsquo;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 &ldquo;content&rdquo; (whatever that means).</p> <p>I&rsquo;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.</p>