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Re: Building a fast, secured and free static site in less than three hours

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Why?

> pages.sheetsu.com uses an invalid security certificate. The certificate is only valid for the following names: sheetsu.com, www.sheetsu.com Error code: SSL_ERROR_BAD_CERT_DOMAIN

All the pages hosted with Sheetsu Pages are hosted under sheetsu.io domain. Which has wildcard SSL.

Re: Building a fast, secured and free static site in less than three hours

#192

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> pages.sheetsu.com uses an invalid security certificate. The certificate is only valid for the following names: sheetsu.com, www.sheetsu.com Error code: SSL_ERROR_BAD_CERT_DOMAIN

All the pages hosted with Sheetsu Pages are hosted under sheetsu.io domain. Which has wildcard SSL.

Except the cert for `pages.sheetsu.com` is only valid for `sheetsu.com`.

Re: Building a fast, secured and free static site in less than three hours

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> pages.sheetsu.com uses an invalid security certificate. The certificate is only valid for the following names: sheetsu.com, www.sheetsu.com Error code: SSL_ERROR_BAD_CERT_DOMAIN

All the pages hosted with Sheetsu Pages are hosted under sheetsu.io domain. Which has wildcard SSL.

Replying to the child comment from whorleater - that's a good catch! Our mistake with the domain redirects and certs. Will fix it ASAP. Thanks for spotting this bug.

Re: Building a fast, secured and free static site in less than three hours

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I had really hoped that this was about building a static site, but again you'll end up with a blog. I've created an actual static site myself, but it takes a bit extra - especially from the theme. Also, I don't understand why you'd use Hugo with Github when it already supports Jekyll?

hugo builds are faster than jekyll, or so it was atleast the one time I experimented with it...

That might be the case, but when using jekyll you don't even have to build anything - you simply change the source and gihub builds it automatically.

Re: Building a fast, secured and free static site in less than three hours

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Using Hugo adds a lot of complexity. I'm using Surge.sh and raw html/css, I can have a site up in under 2 minutes. I think I spent less than an hour on my blog (it has a very simple layout).

What does it look like/is it customizable? I've been looking to host a math/CS blog somewhere outside of Tumblr (which is great for getting an audience and interacting with people, but totally useless for actually being able to write math, unless you want to embed JPEGs everywhere) and make it as simple as possible. This article seemed like a good start, but I'd love to know more about how you built your blog in a wa…

I'll PM you a link to my blog if you send an email to rug3y@teknik.io. It's still a work in progress but I think it looks alright. If you decide you want to do something similar, I can help you do what I've done.

Re: Building a fast, secured and free static site in less than three hours

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But the domain is github.com, which has a valid ssl cert. You only need cloudflare to get it on your own domain.

Right, but Cloudflare doesn't actually check if the cert is valid, unless you enable Strict mode, which you can't because you'd need Github to serve a cert for your own domain.

Are you sure? Wouldn't it check to see that the cert is valid for github.com, not for your own domain, since that's the origin?

Edit: Looks like you're correct. Sorry!

Re: Building a fast, secured and free static site in less than three hours

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post #195

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What does it look like/is it customizable? I've been looking to host a math/CS blog somewhere outside of Tumblr (which is great for getting an audience and interacting with people, but totally useless for actually being able to write math, unless you want to embed JPEGs everywhere) and make it as simple as possible. This article seemed like a good start, but I'd love to know more about how you built your blog in a wa…

I'll PM you a link to my blog if you send an email to rug3y@teknik.io. It's still a work in progress but I think it looks alright. If you decide you want to do something similar, I can help you do what I've done.

Awesome, thank you!

Re: Building a fast, secured and free static site in less than three hours

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Just to make mention in the comments in case people haven't seen the product, I've found Amazon's Lightsail ( https://amazonlightsail.com ) incredibly easy and cheap to launch a simple website upon, along with using their Route53 for DNS hosting. Even though I know all the ins and outs of AWS, I really like this product for simple projects. (I have no affiliation with Amazon)

What are the costs associated with something like that?

Re: Building a fast, secured and free static site in less than three hours

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$1.20 a month is really expensive. I have a whole virtual server for €5 a month (and there are smaller ones) that hosts 10+ sites/apps. EDIT: I just realized that's a question I should ask: Does your price include the domain?

What service do you use? 5/mo is really cheap for 10+sites/apps

hetzner.de (the cheapest virtual server)

I'm really conscious about the resource usage of my server processes. Most sites are static websites, but I also have Gitea, Prosody and Matrix Synapse running on that box, plus some small Go webapps for my own consumption.

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