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description: ""
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title: How to Setup A Free, Fast, and Simple Blog Like This
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draft: true
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**TL;DR**: Netlify is incredible for hosting static websites. The code for this
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entire site is available [here][repo]. I publish at-will using their CLI via
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`netlify deploy --prod`. It's simple and awesome.
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# Introduction
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This website may not look like much, but that's *intentional*. It is simple
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both in style, colors, and layout. It is blazing fast. It looks the same on any
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device, mobile or otherwise. It uses the simple web technologies you already
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know. You can use any static site generator such as [Hugo][hugo] or
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[Gatsby][gatsby]. *And I don't pay for any of it to work!* I do pay for the
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domain [`lyte.dev`](/), though, but you can get certain domains for completely
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free.
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And you can easily build on top of a system like this, extending it to do
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anything you could ever possibly want! Need a Content Management System (CMS)?
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[Done][netlify-cms]. Need to deploy a complicated Single-Page Application
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(SPA)? [Easy][netlify-spa].
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I'll show you how I put this together using tools already on your computer and
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how you can extend my system to use whatever tools you prefer on top of my
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basic ones.
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Let's get started!
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# How This Site Works
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+ Obtain a domain and
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+ Publish the site at will using Netlify (their CLI is great!)
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[netlify]: https://docs.netlify.com/cli/get-started/
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[hugo]: https://gohugo.io/
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[gatsby]: https://www.gatsbyjs.com/
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[repo]: https://git.lyte.dev/lytedev/site.lyte.dev
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[netlify-cms]: https://www.netlifycms.org/
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[netlify-spa]: https://www.netlify.com/blog/2020/04/07/creating-better-more-predictable-redirect-rules-for-spas/
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