Moving a Hugo Blog Off GitHub Pages

Feeling more like a move off GitHub is coming, just don’t have the energy levels right now. Maybe it’s confirmation bias but does seem like many others are doing this.

Two things converged. First, GitHub Pages started feeling more like a constraint than a freebie: no access logs, a hard cap on file size, no control over response headers without bolting on a Cloudflare Worker, no place to run anything dynamic next to the static site. Second, the EU jurisdictional question stopped feeling academic. Newsletter subscriber records, draft posts, analytics counters, backup archives: all of it sat in US-controlled storage by default.

Self-hosting isn’t a moral position. It’s a series of small choices about where data lives and how much operational overhead you’re willing to absorb in exchange for control. Longer-term I want to be off the major hyperscalers entirely.

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