Hi, thanks for the positive feedback on my inaugural post :) Although I don't officially have a static IP, practically I have one, as I can't recall the last time that my ISP changed it on me. I'm using pingdom to alert me whenever my sites go down, so I've added my blog there and can update DNS when that next happens.
I use uptimerobot.com/ for my monitoring (Pingdom is nicer but I didn't see a completely free tier...). DDNS isn't too hard to configure if you wanted to automate the process of updating your DNS record if your home IP were to ever change.
I published a workshop on setting up the Hugo site on GCP with Caddy to my YouTube channel if you are interested: youtube.com/watch?v=xo_4n2Reh58
I didn't know about uptimerobot, that's a good tip, thanks. I saw in your post you linked that you're using Docker. I've just posted how I'm using docker, you may be interested in the Caddy 1 http.git directive: dev.to/mark_saward/easy-updates-fo....
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I have been on a similar journey, choosing to host my static content directly in Azure cloud storage / CDN to get away from my Wordpress/Moinmoin/other CMS hosted on a relatively expensive VM. So far so good! The VM is still there ATM as there are a number of other folks sites to staticify, and I'm hosting a video server for family with Jitsi while in lockdown!
30+ years of tech, retired from an identity intelligence company, now part-time with an insurance broker.
Dev community mod - mostly light gardening & weeding out spam :)
So far I've ported content from MoinMoin to Hugo with a little help from a markdown converter intended for Wordpress. The Wordpress sites I'll probably try a similar route.
I'm using NetlifyCMS as a client-side page editor with github for versioned storage and webhooks back to my personal server to redeploy changes to Azure. NetlifyCMS is good enough to replace Wordpress for CMS duties for al the sites I host I think...
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Hi, thanks for the positive feedback on my inaugural post :) Although I don't officially have a static IP, practically I have one, as I can't recall the last time that my ISP changed it on me. I'm using pingdom to alert me whenever my sites go down, so I've added my blog there and can update DNS when that next happens.
free f1-micro does sound like a good idea!
I use uptimerobot.com/ for my monitoring (Pingdom is nicer but I didn't see a completely free tier...). DDNS isn't too hard to configure if you wanted to automate the process of updating your DNS record if your home IP were to ever change.
I published a workshop on setting up the Hugo site on GCP with Caddy to my YouTube channel if you are interested: youtube.com/watch?v=xo_4n2Reh58
I also made the setup code available here: github.com/sidpalas/hugo-gcp-deploy
I didn't know about uptimerobot, that's a good tip, thanks. I saw in your post you linked that you're using Docker. I've just posted how I'm using docker, you may be interested in the Caddy 1 http.git directive: dev.to/mark_saward/easy-updates-fo....
I have been on a similar journey, choosing to host my static content directly in Azure cloud storage / CDN to get away from my Wordpress/Moinmoin/other CMS hosted on a relatively expensive VM. So far so good! The VM is still there ATM as there are a number of other folks sites to staticify, and I'm hosting a video server for family with Jitsi while in lockdown!
Are you porting the sites to something like Hugo/Gatsby or generating the static sites directly from the CMS (w/ a plugin or similar)?
So far I've ported content from MoinMoin to Hugo with a little help from a markdown converter intended for Wordpress. The Wordpress sites I'll probably try a similar route.
I'm using NetlifyCMS as a client-side page editor with github for versioned storage and webhooks back to my personal server to redeploy changes to Azure. NetlifyCMS is good enough to replace Wordpress for CMS duties for al the sites I host I think...