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date: 2026-06-19 01:49
title: Moving a Hugo Blog Off GitHub Pages
link: https://philippdubach.com/posts/moving-the-blog-stack-to-europe-kind-of/
cited: Philip P Dubach
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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.
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> 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.