Blogs have been an amazing source of learning for me in the past few years. And I have been having this keen interest in starting one and maintaining it myself.

I now have created three different pages I plan to maintain with as many posts as possible. Here is what is behind each of those.

My Website

I remember buying the domain some time in 2009 back when I was in college. But then left it unused for quite a while. I setup a blog after a while. But then moved to using a landing page that I have right now. This was setup some time in early 2018.

This is a simple static landing page which is mostly taken as is from HTML5Up’s Aerial template.

The site is built as a hugo static site. Using Seth MacLeod’s port (no longer public on Github) of the template. I added my own slight variations on the site and this is available on my github.

I got rid of most of the stylings there. I loved the background color they used and decided to keep that as the base color for all my sites.

My Blog

This is what I consider will be a changelog of everything that happens in my life. This blog is also a static site. Built using Hugo - the amazing static site generator.

The layout is my own. Inspired by most of the blogs I read. May not be the best on all devices, but works. Hugo’s templating system makes it easy to play with the different things and create all the pages that I need.

The source code is available on github if you want to go through how I created it.

My Projects home

Call this a portfolio if you must. But I consider this a placeholder for all the amazing open-source projects I have created and plan to create in future. 😄

This is also a static site built on Hugo. Layout is slightly different to show more details as compared to the blog. Still something I have created on my own in the quest to becoming CSS and design master.

Hosting

All these websites are hosted on AWS as of this post.

The websites are hosted as a static site on S3, with a route 53 domain configuration pointing to a Cloudfront distribution.

Most of the things I setup follow the AWS tutorial to setup a static site. The setup is not free, but the cost is very very less. Right now, I spend just half a dollar to maintain all these sites.

Looks like this is my fourth hosting solution as per Complete DNS History

I had setup automated deployment on Travis for a while. But went back on that after moving to AWS. Have to setup that again, but that is for another post. 😄