Yeah, guestbooks are still a thing and I’m rocking one. Please feel free to sign my guestbook and/or peruse the entries left by others.
Great blog Kev, just subscribed to your newsletter and RSS feed! I’m in the process of starting a blog and have still been jumping back and forth between hosting on Micro.blog, or rolling my own with Jekyll on GitHub Pages or Vercel/Netlify. VPS is still in the back of my mind but I’m not sure I want the hassle of managing one (even though I could).
How are you finding Jekyll to work for you in terms of build times and keeping gems/dependencies up to date? I tested Jekyll on Vercel once and each time I updated the post it seemed to go through a full re-download of the dependencies instead of caching them? Not sure if Netlify has something similar or how it works in that regard.
P.S. The guestbook idea is just fantastic, I might have to steal this one (with total credit back to you if/when I do).
How are you finding Jekyll to work for you in terms of build times and keeping gems/dependencies up to date? I tested Jekyll on Vercel once and each time I updated the post it seemed to go through a full re-download of the dependencies instead of caching them? Not sure if Netlify has something similar or how it works in that regard.
P.S. The guestbook idea is just fantastic, I might have to steal this one (with total credit back to you if/when I do).
Admin Reply:
Hey Pete,
Thanks for the comment. I’m finding Jekyll to be great. I’m currently hosting this site on AWS Amplify, which costs around £1/month for my traffic volume. I host other sites with Netlify and they’re great too though.
In terms of build times, a local build of my entire site takes maybe 10 seconds to complete. When I do a git push, my changes are live within a couple of minutes max. That’s the same on both AWS and Netlify.
Feel free to use the guestbook idea! It’s working really well for me. 😊
Hope this helps. If you wanna talk more, feel deee to drop me an email.
Kev
Thanks for the comment. I’m finding Jekyll to be great. I’m currently hosting this site on AWS Amplify, which costs around £1/month for my traffic volume. I host other sites with Netlify and they’re great too though.
In terms of build times, a local build of my entire site takes maybe 10 seconds to complete. When I do a git push, my changes are live within a couple of minutes max. That’s the same on both AWS and Netlify.
Feel free to use the guestbook idea! It’s working really well for me. 😊
Hope this helps. If you wanna talk more, feel deee to drop me an email.
Kev