How this site is hosted

This site is generated using Hugo, with the PaperMod theme. It is served using Caddy running within docker.

I am not a web developer. I find almost all browser based technologies confounding. I looked into several “wordpress” like solutions for a home website, but when faced with setting up some kind of PHP/node.js + SQL stack to run it I ran right over to markdown based static site generators with community theme support. I write the markdown, it turns it into something browsers can handle. Success!

I went with Hugo because it seemed top a lot of the listicles about generators and I managed to get it running on the first try. I went with PaperMod because I was looking for a relatively benign theme and again, it worked on the first try.

My caddy config for this site looks like this.

write.markgius.com {
    root * /content/write.markgius.com
    file_server
}

I’ll wax poetic about how great caddy has been in a future post.