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Thomas Leon Highbaugh

Good article, love the quality of your explanations and your retention of fluency even after wading through technical matters. Especially liked the explanation of how Github Actions which was clearer than Github's own documentation.

Would like to point the entirely free options that integrate well with Gatsby and leave open the possibilities of varied CMS options for additional authors to the blog, for your (if you don't already know) and everyone else's benefit.

  1. Netlify - which offers quite a bit free but build minutes can catch up to you if you have a lot of repos.
  2. Vercel - I cannot recommend enough, I have never run up any build minutes nor have I have any charges whatsoever, hosting almost all of my sites on this platform that is also the same team that Next.js comes from (which I moved to from Gatsby because Gatsby can be a bit fickle where Next is more of the WebPack wrapper I didn't know I wanted)

Both are part of the awfully named JAMstack paradigm, which minimize developer overhead but as a Linux user myself, I do not mind that so much. Instead I was drawn in by the absolutely 0 dollars/pounds sterling I pay for using these loaded platforms and stayed because the ease of integrating CI/CD tools into my workflow.