Setting up personal blog with Hugo and Github Pages

Recently I’ve been thinking about setting up my own blog. If you are reading this it means that I actually did it 🙂.

In this post I will try to outline the things I had to do to achieve this.

Choosing blogging engine

Generally there are two common approaches for hosting a blog:

• managed blogging platforms like Medium or Hashnode
• self-hosting using blog engines like WordPress or Jekyll

I guess in many cases using managed platform is a great option because it’s really simple and allows you to focus on your content creation without the need to manage underlying hosting infra.

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