Choosing Hosting Service
Finalizing choice for hosting service
I finally decided to use Digital Ocean’s “App Platform” to host this blog site. So this is currently available on both github pages and DO.
This is just a small update to keep you in The Loop. Anyways, I feel like I got this out of my chest so now I can start writing some more meaningful blogs that might be more relevant to coding and stuff. I am going to be posting here kind of semi-randomly, without sticking to any specific topic, but it will most probably about coding. I will try to put a blog either weekly or bi-weekly.
The Digital Ocean Setup
It was actually quite easy. Since I already had the whole thing already setup, all I had to do was host it using DO. But there was a small issue.
For some reason, when creating a new thing with “App Platform”, I got the Error
No Components Detected. This was because DO didn’t detect the hugo project
like it says in the
tutorial.
DO needs an index.html to detect that the project is a static site.
Thankfully, you can just remove the public directory from the .gitignore,
so that you can set the “Source Directory” from DO. It was slightly silly, but
it wasn’t a big issue.
I know that this is not Linode, and not Object Store, that I wanted . I initially considered using Digital Ocean’s “Spaces Object Store”, but I thought, it is better to have something than to mess with something I have never done before. I might try it later if a necessity comes, I may directly shift to Linode once that is available to me.
Next Step
I want to get a domain; possibly for free, so that I can have something to
simply give to people without
ondigitalocean in the domain. Looks
kind of unprofessional.