In this blog post, I will walk you through the process of moving a website from Hugo to Astro, a simpler solution that eliminates the need to work with Hugo templates when making changes. I find Astro to be a great choice for this migration because it allows me to use JSX, a syntax I am more comfortable with, and also gives me the flexibility to incorporate frameworks like Svelte or React in the future....
As mentioned in my recent YouTube video, I made the decision last week to migrate my blog from Netlify to Cloudflare Pages. The main reason behind this change was the growing concern of bandwidth costs. Starting from July last year, I found myself being billed by Netlify on a monthly basis. While I appreciate the service they provide, the extra bandwidth charges were becoming a significant expense. In total, I had spent $340 to keep my blog running smoothly....
In this post, I will describe the technologies and tools I use to run my blog. From the site platform to hosting, and even my workflow for posting articles, I’ll cover it all. The site platform This blog is built using Astro, a static site framework. While I previously used Hugo, I found that I enjoy creating user interfaces with JSX more. Astro, like Hugo, generates fast pages that can be easily deployed on platforms like Netlify or Cloudflare Pages....