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<p>This site began with the concept of a simplified static site generator, which resulted in writing <a href="accelerator.html">accelerator</a> first.</p>

<p>The goal of this site was to replace a traditional dynamic system with raw static content and redirect the domain after.</p>

<h4>design considerations</h4>

<p>One major consideration was taking advantage of content delivery using AWS S3 and CloudFront services for any static or binary contents.  This provides a significantly greater degree of scalability, in that I can create as many servers as necessary to deliver the websites static content, while binary/static files all come from one place.</p>

<p>Right now that includes images, fonts, and some static third-party css and javascript.  Because my own css and javascript are still under construction it made sense to include them using git-hash-versioning to ensure the browser won&rsquo;t cache incorrectly.  <em>In the future I could continue to version but also minify and upload the changed files to S3 so I could benefit from using it for all &ldquo;static&rdquo; files.</em></p>

<p>Another advantage to moving away from a dynamic website is that when dealing with basic static html we can enable simple caching directly through nginx without concern for other layers; there is no CMS to contend with or concern for &ldquo;immediately up-to-date&rdquo; contents.</p>

<p>I decided to implement <code>https</code> because I intend to use the domain for experiments from time to time, <em>and also <a href="https://letsencrypt.org/">because it&rsquo;s free</a>.</em></p>

<p>Finally, I am using git, as well as github, as a means of version control for my website now.  This allows me to enable a simple cronjob to pull changes hourly, and know that I can update my site from any computer by simply pushing new static html to the github repository.  This also means I have a backup, and a very simple distribution and deployment method.</p>

<h4>future plans</h4>

<p>I have two considerations for the next steps:</p>

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<li>possibly switch to <a href="https://gohugo.io/">hugo</a></li>
<li>generate the site on the server after pulling changes and remove html from the repository</li>
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<p>The custom tool I built was more of a proof-of-concept, and while neat it isn&rsquo;t the best option out there.  Another tool built in go with much greater stability is available, and might be worth trying.</p>

<p>Right now I commit the parsed html directly to the repository, and while this means deployment is a simple <code>git pull</code>, it also means that the compiled version of every file is taking space up in the repository redundantly.</p>

<p><em>Finally, I might move the css and javascript to the same S3 CDN that I use for images.</em></p>

<p><strong><em>updated on 2017-07-18</em></strong></p>

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