Moving to Hugo and Blowfish

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I’ve migrated some of the content on this blog multiple times at this point, and admittedly it’s not a lot of content as I’m bad about adding to it. Always other projects to work on.

The earliest incarnation was based on Drupal, a popular web framework that is great for sites that need a lot of ‘infrastructure’ which I do not, really. As is often the case, this was partially done for a learning experience supporting migrating other sites to different technologies, but we do what we must.

Financial

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Essentially, I wanted to save some money. Even a minimal server is a few dollars a month in Amazon Lightsail infrastructure. It’s not a huge cost but I’d rather not pay if I don’t have to. Spinning up an entire VM for two tiny servers seemed like a waste overall.

Technical

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Security reasons were a concern as well. Essentially, running a LightSail server requires some minimal Linux experience (which describes my abilities)

The Hugo “stack” isn’t nonexistant: As I am writing this I am working on details of deployment and hoping I haven’t accidentally left the S3 storage wide open, but I don’t have to worry anout an apache configuration and several layers of underlying software down to the Linux kernel.