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How to Build Personal Website for Free With Hugo

Introduction Can you believe it? Except for the domain name, the setup of my personal website is completely free! After all, this is just a site where I plan to post casual articles, so I’ll save money wherever I can. Let me explain how I built this website. Framework Selection Since I wanted it to be free, I couldn’t choose an SSR (Server-Side Rendering) framework like WordPress, as deploying it to a host would cost money. Although some cloud platforms offer free tiers, increased traffic would inevitably incur costs. Therefore, choosing an SSG (Static Site Generation) framework and deploying it on a platform offering free static site hosting is more sensible. ...

Posted on: 2024-07-06 · Edited on: 2024-08-31 · Chi-Sheng Liu