How to Secure a Website at Home
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@scottalanmiller said in How to Secure a Website at Home:
Yeah, this is standard and built in to most static site mechanisms.
OK sounds good, any examples on how to do it
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@hobbit666 said in How to Secure a Website at Home:
@scottalanmiller said in How to Secure a Website at Home:
Yeah, this is standard and built in to most static site mechanisms.
OK sounds good, any examples on how to do it
Hugo (gohugo.io) is what the others suggested. You can build the whole page locally on your own computer, then export the site to a local directory, which you then copy to your webhost.
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@dashrender said in How to Secure a Website at Home:
@hobbit666 said in How to Secure a Website at Home:
@scottalanmiller said in How to Secure a Website at Home:
Yeah, this is standard and built in to most static site mechanisms.
OK sounds good, any examples on how to do it
Hugo (gohugo.io) is what the others suggested. You can build the whole page locally on your own computer, then export the site to a local directory, which you then copy to your webhost.
In my case I use Hugo in a gitlab repo.
I clone it locally to create content using the hugo commands. Hugo itself uses markdown.
Then you create yaml config file for gitlab ci. to generate teh hugo content into the public folder which is what gitlab pages looks at.
gitlab pages setup to serve
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But like @Dashrender said, you could run the hugo commands locally to build the site into the local public folder and jsut upload that. static content to your webserver.
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@JaredBusch thanks for the detailed example
Thanks all for the input. Will look at Azure/AWS etc for hosting if I will only be under a £1
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@hobbit666 said in How to Secure a Website at Home:
@JaredBusch thanks for the detailed example
Thanks all for the input. Will look at Azure/AWS etc for hosting if I will only be under a £1
Why not GitHub or GitLab for free?
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@obsolesce said in How to Secure a Website at Home:
Why not GitHub or GitLab for free?
That was part of the etc
Also I thought GitHub was more for storing scripts and opensource stuff. -
@obsolesce said in How to Secure a Website at Home:
@hobbit666 said in How to Secure a Website at Home:
@JaredBusch thanks for the detailed example
Thanks all for the input. Will look at Azure/AWS etc for hosting if I will only be under a £1
Why not GitHub or GitLab for free?
That's the part of JB's explanation I didn't get - will GitHub/GitLab actually host your static page for free? can you point your own domain name at it?
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@dashrender said in How to Secure a Website at Home:
@obsolesce said in How to Secure a Website at Home:
@hobbit666 said in How to Secure a Website at Home:
@JaredBusch thanks for the detailed example
Thanks all for the input. Will look at Azure/AWS etc for hosting if I will only be under a £1
Why not GitHub or GitLab for free?
That's the part of JB's explanation I didn't get - will GitHub/GitLab actually host your static page for free? can you point your own domain name at it?
Yes.
It's an artifact from a pipeline build. So pages just points to that artifact directory. You just define a CNAME to point to the generated URL. They will handle HTTPS with LetsEncrypt for you.
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My project https://gophemeral.com is also a static site hosted at Vercel. It's built with Hugo and there's an API that's a serverless function hosted with them which does the work and returns it to the Hugo site. That's also all free.
I recommend Vercel. It has a ton of features, builds are quick, and DNS is pretty easy with them. You also get multiple deployments so you can have different versions of the site which is something you don't get with GitLab (not sure about GitHub). And you can easily roll back to a version if there's an issue.
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@stacksofplates said in How to Secure a Website at Home:
@dashrender said in How to Secure a Website at Home:
@obsolesce said in How to Secure a Website at Home:
@hobbit666 said in How to Secure a Website at Home:
@JaredBusch thanks for the detailed example
Thanks all for the input. Will look at Azure/AWS etc for hosting if I will only be under a £1
Why not GitHub or GitLab for free?
That's the part of JB's explanation I didn't get - will GitHub/GitLab actually host your static page for free? can you point your own domain name at it?
Yes.
It's an artifact from a pipeline build. So pages just points to that artifact directory. You just define a CNAME to point to the generated URL. They will handle HTTPS with LetsEncrypt for you.
What does the URL look like to the end user?
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@dashrender said in How to Secure a Website at Home:
@stacksofplates said in How to Secure a Website at Home:
@dashrender said in How to Secure a Website at Home:
@obsolesce said in How to Secure a Website at Home:
@hobbit666 said in How to Secure a Website at Home:
@JaredBusch thanks for the detailed example
Thanks all for the input. Will look at Azure/AWS etc for hosting if I will only be under a £1
Why not GitHub or GitLab for free?
That's the part of JB's explanation I didn't get - will GitHub/GitLab actually host your static page for free? can you point your own domain name at it?
Yes.
It's an artifact from a pipeline build. So pages just points to that artifact directory. You just define a CNAME to point to the generated URL. They will handle HTTPS with LetsEncrypt for you.
What does the URL look like to the end user?
My blog's generated URL is this https://john-hooks.gitlab.io/sites/site/ but you just create a CNAME and the URL everyone would use is https://hooks.technology.
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@dashrender said in How to Secure a Website at Home:
@obsolesce said in How to Secure a Website at Home:
@hobbit666 said in How to Secure a Website at Home:
@JaredBusch thanks for the detailed example
Thanks all for the input. Will look at Azure/AWS etc for hosting if I will only be under a £1
Why not GitHub or GitLab for free?
That's the part of JB's explanation I didn't get - will GitHub/GitLab actually host your static page for free? can you point your own domain name at it?
Yes, it's very popular.
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@hobbit666 said in How to Secure a Website at Home:
@obsolesce said in How to Secure a Website at Home:
Why not GitHub or GitLab for free?
That was part of the etc
Also I thought GitHub was more for storing scripts and opensource stuff.One of many things that it does. It's a big service.
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@hobbit666 said in How to Secure a Website at Home:
@JaredBusch thanks for the detailed example
Thanks all for the input. Will look at Azure/AWS etc for hosting if I will only be under a £1
Too much money, too much work. Keep it simple and standard.
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@dashrender said in How to Secure a Website at Home:
@stacksofplates said in How to Secure a Website at Home:
@dashrender said in How to Secure a Website at Home:
@obsolesce said in How to Secure a Website at Home:
@hobbit666 said in How to Secure a Website at Home:
@JaredBusch thanks for the detailed example
Thanks all for the input. Will look at Azure/AWS etc for hosting if I will only be under a £1
Why not GitHub or GitLab for free?
That's the part of JB's explanation I didn't get - will GitHub/GitLab actually host your static page for free? can you point your own domain name at it?
Yes.
It's an artifact from a pipeline build. So pages just points to that artifact directory. You just define a CNAME to point to the generated URL. They will handle HTTPS with LetsEncrypt for you.
What does the URL look like to the end user?
This is enterprise hosting. It all looks are correct and professional as it gets.
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@stacksofplates said in How to Secure a Website at Home:
@dashrender said in How to Secure a Website at Home:
@obsolesce said in How to Secure a Website at Home:
@hobbit666 said in How to Secure a Website at Home:
@JaredBusch thanks for the detailed example
Thanks all for the input. Will look at Azure/AWS etc for hosting if I will only be under a £1
Why not GitHub or GitLab for free?
That's the part of JB's explanation I didn't get - will GitHub/GitLab actually host your static page for free? can you point your own domain name at it?
Yes.
It's an artifact from a pipeline build. So pages just points to that artifact directory. You just define a CNAME to point to the generated URL. They will handle HTTPS with LetsEncrypt for you.
You mention they will handle HTTPS with LE for you - do you have to do something so they know what name you'll be CNAMing from?
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@dashrender said in How to Secure a Website at Home:
@stacksofplates said in How to Secure a Website at Home:
@dashrender said in How to Secure a Website at Home:
@obsolesce said in How to Secure a Website at Home:
@hobbit666 said in How to Secure a Website at Home:
@JaredBusch thanks for the detailed example
Thanks all for the input. Will look at Azure/AWS etc for hosting if I will only be under a £1
Why not GitHub or GitLab for free?
That's the part of JB's explanation I didn't get - will GitHub/GitLab actually host your static page for free? can you point your own domain name at it?
Yes.
It's an artifact from a pipeline build. So pages just points to that artifact directory. You just define a CNAME to point to the generated URL. They will handle HTTPS with LetsEncrypt for you.
You mention they will handle HTTPS with LE for you - do you have to do something so they know what name you'll be CNAMing from?
Site configuration. When you enable hosting on a website with shared resources, you have to inform it of the host header to respond to. That host header is the CNAME, so it has to know the CNAME (even if it was an A record) because otherwise it wouldn't know to serve out the website.
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@dashrender said in How to Secure a Website at Home:
@stacksofplates said in How to Secure a Website at Home:
@dashrender said in How to Secure a Website at Home:
@obsolesce said in How to Secure a Website at Home:
@hobbit666 said in How to Secure a Website at Home:
@JaredBusch thanks for the detailed example
Thanks all for the input. Will look at Azure/AWS etc for hosting if I will only be under a £1
Why not GitHub or GitLab for free?
That's the part of JB's explanation I didn't get - will GitHub/GitLab actually host your static page for free? can you point your own domain name at it?
Yes.
It's an artifact from a pipeline build. So pages just points to that artifact directory. You just define a CNAME to point to the generated URL. They will handle HTTPS with LetsEncrypt for you.
You mention they will handle HTTPS with LE for you - do you have to do something so they know what name you'll be CNAMing from?
Hello website 101...
Anyway your answer was in my screenshot...
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Another example from Azure that I've been using the last year or so:
Azure Blob URL: https://cloudforth.z5.web.core.windows.net/
CustomURL: https://cloudforth.ioThis is what I'm paying for:
And this is how much it costs me per month:
