[hachibu]

I use Hugo and I host my blog out of an AWS S3 bucket.

Pros:

  - Cheap.

  - Static and small. Hugo lets me really make everything tiny.

  - Learned more about AWS.

Cons:

  - A lot of work because I had to setup Route 53, CloudFront, Certificate Manager and S3.

  - Learning about the permission model and setting up an IAM user with right permissions.

  - Figuring out how Route 53, Certificate Manager and CloudFront work together so I could have SSL.

Reading this back, my pros and cons list sounds ridiculous.

[1337shadow]

Also, gitlab pages will host your pages for free, there are many site generates you can choose from ( gitlab.com/pages ), including Hugo, you don't get any of the con, and it's completely free to use.

[samanthalee233]

Community Advocate with GitLab here, just wanted to share the link to GitLab Pages in case anyone is looking for it: https://about.gitlab.com/stages-devops-lifecycle/pages/