Site Info
Summary
| Section | Cost | Navigate | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Site hosting | GitHub Pages | $ 0.00 /yr | Jump to section ↓ |
| Domain registrar | Porkbun | $13.00 /yr | Jump to section ↓ |
| Framework | Hugo | $ 0.00 /yr | Jump to section ↓ |
| Theme | PaperMod | $ 0.00 /yr | Jump to section ↓ |
Site Hosting
To host my site I use GitHub pages. It’s completely free, so long as you don’t mind ALL the code for your website being available to literally anyone. As a believer in FOSS I don’t mind at all, besides I have nothing to hide!
Domain Registrar
I use Porkbun because they offer a lot of domain services for free, services other registrars charge extra for…
- WHOIS privacy
- SSL certificates
- URL forwarding
- Email forwarding
- CLoudflare DNS management
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Framework
My website uses Hugo, an open-source static site generator.
I like Hugo most for it’s speed. My website will build and deploy in less than 30 seconds and scores very high on PageSpeed Insights.
Desktop score: 100 Open Report ↗
Mobile score: 99.75 Open Report ↗
It’s popularity also means there’s lots of support available, and it’s easy to Google questions and get quick answers.
Theme
I was looking online for a template to use for my website and found Pascal Michaillat’s GitHub repo ‘hugo-website’, which is an academic-focused website template made from Papermod by Aditya Telange, which is itself a modification of the `Paper’ theme by nanxiaobei. (wow that’s a lot of hyperlinks!)