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Since I didn’t manage to write blog posts regularly enough in the last few months, I forgot how to deploy the changes to my website. Luckily I documented how to do all of the steps in my previous blog posts! I guess that is the benefit of a system like Wordpress or Drupal, where the authoring is a bit more straightforward out of the box, at the cost of the simplicity of managing patches for a static site of course…Published on
Initially I setup Google Analytics because I had used it before on a previous project, and spotted that there is a Hugo integration. But I got thinking that there must be information about how to use the information straight from CloudFront. This great article confirmed my suspicions! Google Analytics Setting up Google Analytics with Hugo is as simple as adding your Google Analytics id to the config.yaml. I didn’t look into whether this then assumes that the theme you are using also supports this, or whether there is other magic so that it ‘just works’.Published on
Hugo works! The Deploy is a really nice touch. Fixes loads of stuff that I have no clue about, at least to a reasonable first approximation (see e.g. SEO, GDPR, etc). Git the generated source A small philosophical question around whether it makes sense to check in the public directory to my git repo. That would basically provide an archive of what was deployed at each stage. At this point I’m tempted to do this, since it ‘costs’ very little effort and I can’t see any real downsides.Published on
AWS is such a powerful tool to get things done quickly, and often cheaply. But it’s still a lurking worry for many that costs could quickly spiral out of control. Since I’m hosting my website here I’d like to know if costs change considerably, so I can act fast to save my credit card if I need to! This is by no means meant as a comprehensive guide on how to do this, I’m pretty certain that your AWS account manager can help with reading material for that!Published on
In the previous blog post I talked about how I created the static pages for hosting on AWS S3. Since you’re reading this, you might be interested in how I registered the domain and got things deployed. If you want to see how I think you can do this best, read the article backwards since this is the solution that I used in the end. Read from the front of the article if you want to know how I got there!Published on
