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by snazz 2323 days ago
If it's just a personal website, you might find it easier to use GitHub Pages (or GitLab's equivalent) and Cloudflare. Both are free for any reasonable personal website usage.

If you don't want to run a build of your static site generator on your computer and upload the result to GitHub every time you make a change, you can just use Jekyll and GitHub will build it for you. I think GitLab supports other static site generators as well. This technique is how https://www.snazz.xyz works.
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judge2020 2323 days ago
CF is not necessary anymore for SSL since GH can issue LetsEncrypt certificates automatically. https://help.github.com/en/github/working-with-github-pages/...
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snazz 2323 days ago
True. I find that the other features (analytics, better DNS interface, caching) make it worthwhile for me. Also, the original article mentioned CloudFront.
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guu 2323 days ago
Yes, https://netlify.com is great for this too and supports most static site generators.
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