Let’s face it, WordPress is great, it is easy, and free, but you need so much stuff around it in the form of Plugins, cache managers and whatnot… it becomes truly annoying.

Then you add the massive effort caused by script kiddies, hackers and others and messing with too much technical effort for so little payoff, it is natural to go back to static websites.

Solution

My new approach is based on the static page generator Hugo with a private repository on GitHub to store the source code. These files are authored localy via a repository that I push and pull which is linked to Netlify which takes the published changes in GitHub and automatically deployes them to the Netlify servers. That is what you see when you type https://www.jordibares.com

Furthermore, the domains are served from NameCheap and customised as CNAME and ALIAS pointing to the Netlify deployment.

The total cost of this setup is ZERO.

Truly awesome combo… this is the future.

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