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Setting up a hugo static site hosted with Porkbun

Setting up a hugo static site hosted with Porkbun

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Content generation This is a static site generated with hugo with the PaperMod theme. I wanted an easy to use static site generator. I considered Jekyll and believe it to be a good choice for static sites. There seemed to be slightly more themes I liked with hugo so I went with that. That's a pretty superficial choice but I also don't plan on hacking on the site generation itself so I was agnostic to the Go versus Ruby choice. Domain hosting This site uses porkbun for a domain host. I chose it not least because I do enjoy porkbuns. They also listed static site hosting as a service which suited this site well. Porkbun link-in-bio versus static hosting By the time I wanted to host this site, I either made the choice without remembering or it is a default setting to have new sites use the "link in bio" hosting plan (which is free). But I need to pay their small fee to host a static site. I then found porkbun's helpful FAQ , which helped me change out of link in bio mode to static hosting

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