maurachace.com • 06 June 2011
Am I…blogging again?
Let me explain.
This year I decided to get rid of my general-purpose webhosting with WebFaction. I like WebFaction and would still recommend them to anyone, but over time I ended up just hosting WordPress blogs there, which is silly. I moved my blogs to WordPress.com with domain mapping, which I recommend because you let their great team worry about plugins, themes and upgrades, and it’s cheaper overall.
I needed a place to host maurachace.com, my (personal/professional?) home page. At first, I tried really hard to use a service like Flavors.me or About.me. Beyond a few niggles, the deal breaker for both was that I couldn’t delegate an OpenID provider. Okay, I know OpenID is dead, but I didn’t like having my hands tied.
I turned to GitHub Pages. It gave me all of the customization I wanted, and you can CNAME your own domain for free. Although I wasn’t planning on using it at first, it comes with Jekyll, “a blog-aware, static site generator,” built in. How awesome this is started to sink in, and I read a few posts about the ease of using Jekyll (below), so I decided to give it a try.
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