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> On 17/06/2021 20:05 Simon Avery <digdilem@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Thu, 17 Jun 2021 at 18:44, Andy Wills <home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > As there's been some heated discussion recently of website design and so forth, > > I thought I'd share my experience of using github as a webhosting platform. > > > > The approach is markdown/jeykll based and there are some lovely repos to help > > make things look pretty -- I used BeautifulJeykll > > A nice looking site, and interesting it's on Github. I was aware they allow a free > personal page, but hadn't actually twigged about using your own domain on it. > > I'm letting my vps expire in a month's time and with it a couple of sites. I have > cgnat on both my internet connections, so can't (easily) self host, and this might > be a fun way to keep some form of web present without an ongoing cost, aside from > the domain. > > Thanks - mildly inspiring, even for an old geek who's done about a million > websites.... > No problem :-) Setting up to point to a personal domain was the fiddly-est part for me, but mainly because I lack knowledge in that area. If I had to do that linking part again, I think it'd only take 30 mins or so. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG https://mailman.dcglug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq