Netlify

I did a Green Web Check on my blog. Unfortunately, it’s not on a green hosting site. I host with Netlify and have been very happy with it but this is a bit of a negative. I use the free starter so I don’t have any money in the game, but I’ll send them a note asking about their hosting policy. It’s not that hard to source green energy for web hosting and they should try to do it.

I like the publication workflow in Netlify with Hugo. It’s pretty easy: everything in your master branch is published when it’s committed. That’s quite nice. But if you want to create entries that get published in the future, it’s not as convienient. A quick search on the Netlify Community had a few options listed. But none seemed easier than this one which proposes using a scheduled Github Action to push the build to a Netlify build hook.

Hugo is a good tool for building simple websites. It’s easy to get started with and has a simple workflow that gets out of the way for ongoing updates. Essentially, I followed the steps outlined in the Quick Start and applied the ghostwriter theme. I decided to host the site on Netlify because it had a simple Github based publication process and was very easy to set up. After I generated the site following the Quick Start, I created a new private Github repo and pushed the site up there.