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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.

Markdown Blog

jms — Sun, 25 Feb 2018 00:00:00 +0000

For this blog, i’ve setup a linux KVM vps, using as distro Fedora 27. Fedora 27 comes with Selinux enforced security policy by default this is OK for system or apps where you required a high security level, but for my case to serve a static blog and run a couple of services like OpenSSH and Nginx is ok to set the security policy on permissive mode.

changing the policy can be done via command or setup in permanent way on the selinux config in /etc/selinux/config

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: