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Blog migration: From VPS to Cloudflare pages

jms — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 12:16:05 -0600

The current setup for my blog offers great flexibility and control, source and CI/CD is on GitLab, DNS is handled by Cloudflare and server is VPS in Hetzner Cloud (2 vcpu/4 GB ram/40 GB disk) using Linux Fedora 44 on aarch64, but probably is overkill just to run Nginx and serve static content.

Migration

I’m migrating my blog to another platform with 2 main goals and one constraint, first goal is to reduce mantainance operations like apply OS updates, security patches, check logs, configurations updates, remove old logs, second goald is reduce costs to minimum, the constraint avoid any vendor lock-in or any major change on the blog tooling, currently using Hugo site generator.

Git sync forked repo

jms — Sat, 07 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Some git notes

Markdown Blog

jms — Sun, 18 Feb 2018 00:00:00 +0000

There are many reasons and options to choose a static site generator, but the main reasons are speed and security. Speed because it can allow more control over the content you only load what is really required without additional server side content, for security not having a database that can be compromised and security updates to apply, reduce the attack vectors and the administration work.

There are many options for static site generators created on diferent languages like:

Some basics git commands

jms — Mon, 29 Sep 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Basic workflow

        
        
        
    
# setup the project  
git clone github/project.git  
git branch FeatureX  
git co FeatureX

# make some changes  
git status  
git add .

# commit changes  
git commit -m 'commit message'

# push changes to branch  
git push origin branch-name

# next pull request/merge with master on github or command line  

Sometimes you don’t want to track some files(like local env configuration settings)