Netlify is pretty cool.

I went to update the about section of this site but was running into FTP time out issues pushing the latest version. I figured that because I had been meaning to look into this nifty thing called Netlify, but never really got around to it, that I would finally take a quick look. Well, I was pleasantly surprised that it was so much simpler than I had thought. I think it took me about 10 minutes to get completely up and running and replace my old solution.

Steps

• Create an account on Netlify
• Link it to my gitlab account by logging in.
• Select the repository to build, choose the Hugo version.
• Configure my custom domain via DNS, etc. to point to Netlify
• Configure the redirects

That was it. A lot of it was because my site was already setup to be built via Hugo but also because of Netlify.

Fin.

It was so easy I could have done it in my sleep.

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So, if you had been meaning to check out Netlify or haven’t heard about it. Check it out and see what you think.