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+title: "Brief intermission: switch to Github Pages"
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+date: 2024-01-06T18:14:36Z
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+It took me a few years to realise that running a VPS to host a simple blog and VPN (which I never use!) probably wasn't worth the £5 I was spending a every month keeping it up and running. After chatting to a friend, I realised that a better option would be hosting a blog using Github pages. After a few hours I'd copied the posts from my old site, decommissioned my VPS and started getting to work using this amazing [Github repo](https://github.com/CaiJimmy/hugo-theme-stack-starter). The site is still composed using Hugo and this repo contains the requires Hugo modules to 
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+I was really surprised at just how easy the process was, after a few [DNS changes](https://docs.github.com/en/pages/configuring-a-custom-domain-for-your-github-pages-site/managing-a-custom-domain-for-your-github-pages-site) everything was back up and running in the space of 3-4 hours. This also introduced me to Github codespaces which is a dream to use, instead of having to compose articles locally, SFTP them over to my VPS and run