Changing How I Host This Site

I’ve been pretty happy with my website. The way I hosted it though, that’s a different story. To be clear, I’m not changing web hosts, my frustration is all my doing. I’m just de-shitting how I use my web host.

I’m using GitHub to host my site. And the way I was hosting it was, ass. I was using three repos. A dev, pub, and prod repo. Dev is for post drafts, pub was a public repo of my Hugo¹ project, and prod was where my built site was hosted from. This was just too much.

So, I killed the prod repo. My site is now hosted from a folder in the pub repo. I did have to change where Hugo puts a build. This was just a simple line in my config publishDir = 'docs'. I just had to tell GitHub to host grab the files form the docs folder, and put my CNAME² file in the static folder.

So instead of hitting build, moving the files, and pushing. I just have to build, and push. I should have done this sooner.