Turns out I didn’t write as much as I thought. Whoops.
Couple days ago I researched VPS offering, and found several cheap ones, including the legendary 24 bucks a year VPS. Kind of crazy what you can get nowadays.
Anyway, I try to figure out how to do, you know, actual whole web hosting business. As you know, this site is statically generated, by Hugo. This might change by the time you read this, who knows?
But one of the more interesting insight is in https://fvsch.com/static-site-generators. The gist is, you’ll need to be pretty technical in the first place to use static site generator, and uploading it, and whatnot. And the limitation is quite strict, too. You’re limited to specific template, for one. And baked-in assumption of the generator (theme).
Not to mention it’s hard to fire off new post on, say, a phone. Though if you read this, this post is composed on phone, and possibly even uploaded from phone. Termux!
So since I’ll have my own VPS, why not just run my own small CMS with the dependency? Not to mention, a lot of web apps want those anyway. Stuff like PHP and so on.
For now, I decided against running small CMS for one reason only: keeping to static site invalidate a nice chunk of internet attack. There’s no PHP to worry, or login wall, or whatnot. It’s nice for my own sanity.