Neil Robinson

welcome to my personal blog

Welcome to Go Hugo

Welcome to my new Go Hugo project. My website is now made by GoHugo Static Website Engine.

The motto of Go Hugo is:

Make the Web Fun Again

which rings true for me. I had a wordpress site for many years now and the updates were always annoying and, if I was busy for a month, and neglect to update the site when there is a significant security issue and your site needed the new update then your website was liable to be hacked or injected with malware. I know I could have registered my site with wordpress.com, and they would perform the updates automatically. However, there was two issue and a weakness on my part.

Issue #1

It was slow to load because it is all generated by php and MySQL database. So, backing up is always a pain.

Issue #2

How do I know for sure that my site is not hacked or have malware. My hosting emails me warnings that I have potential malware. However, it is uncertain if a breach was made, and there is no way to identify a breach.

My Weakness

I found it difficult to modify wordpress and make it into my own individual site with my own customizations. I was afraid to modify it because of I did not want to open up new security issues.

However, with Go Hugo modifying the website was difficult, but I was able to understand the mechanics and underlying Go Hugo functionality much quicker and with better comprehension and ease than I was very able to do with wordpress.

Building and Deploying the site Simple

I used firebase to host my site; therefore, building and deploying is a snap! Within your blog directory, here’s the command line to deploy:

:~/blog$ hugo && firebase deploy

Conclusion

So now that I am on a static website I can worry less about security issues. Furthermore, the internet is designed to provide static content so my content should load faster than before.