Hugo

Introduction

I previously managed a blog hosted on a WordPress installation running on Amazon Lightsail. While the setup worked well, maintaining WordPress required significant effort—keeping it updated, securing the installation, and managing comments. Looking for a more efficient and low-cost solution, I began exploring static site generators like Jekyll and Hugo, alongside free or inexpensive hosting options.

I chose Cloudflare Pages as my hosting platform because it allowed me to deploy directly from a private GitHub repository—something not all free hosting solutions support. I was already using Cloudflare for DNS management, so keeping everything within the same ecosystem made sense. As for the static site generator, I opted for Hugo largely out of personal preference. It’s fast, easy to set up, and doesn’t require the Ruby toolchain that Jekyll depends on..