Moving Off of Netlify

Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Ever since I started this blog 3 years ago back in 2022 I’ve hosted it on Netlify. Here is my first post whining about how difficult it was for me to set that up.. Looking back after having a better understanding of both Hugo and Netlify, my complaints are pretty dumb. I’ve learned from certain mistakes like using GitHub submodules unnecessarily and being able to read docs better.

My newest complaint however is a bit more valid. I’ve been reading more and more regarding AI scrapers and was curious what kind of bot traffic my blog was receiving. So I go on Netlify and look around for logs. Can’t find any kind of access logs. Find out that Netlify does offer logs, however they are on their paid plan, and they do not provide really the level of detail compared to logs from like nginx. Since I already self host a VM running nginx, I decided I might as well throw that on it too. I’ve also starting building up monitoring for everything in my home lab. Lots of messing around with SNMP (I hate it) and Grafana’s LGTM stack. My overall plan is to eventually create some kind of primitive NOC & SOC.

Thoughts on Hugo

Sun, 29 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000

I originally found out about Hugo after browsing Hacker News (YCombinator) and coming across a blog with a footer containing a link to Hugo’s site. You can scroll to the bottom to get an exact example of what I’m talking about. If you click on the link you can see Hugo advertised as: “One of the most popular open-source static site generators.” Beforehand, I had been thinking about creating my own site and was researching what exactly I wanted to build my site with. Reading this I immediately bookmarked it. Hugo also claims to be the world’s fastest framework for building websites. Have no clue how true that is. Although Hugo is freakin fast once everything is set up. I specifically wanted to create my site as a blog and hugo seemed perfect for that. If you look at the themes for hugo it’s mostly just blogs.

Hugo on Broderic Duncan

Moving Off of Netlify

Thoughts on Hugo