When deciding for a hosting/blog platform I always enjoyed the concept of statically generated websites. It’s simple, it doesn’t put much stress on the web/application server to run complicated scripts and content management becomes dead simple through the use of git or any VCS. One of the downsides compared to traditional platforms has been the lack of on the fly editing more or less, since getting the generator application to run on a phone for example might prove difficult.
Cue hugo + gitea + drone.
This setup will use a remote gitea repository holding your hugo build files, a droneci instance building and deploying Hugo (including build notification) to enable you to create from any machine that can edit text and interact with git.
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