What tools and/or resources can I use to start such a project?
I’ve been putting some research into it but besides getting conflicting views, I always get the feeling the advices being offered feel exaggerated for what I have in mind.
My intention is to solely publish text.
I was thinking on getting a RPi, perhaps an older model, to use it as host. My idea is to have the public facing machine completely isolated from my daily use computer and network, so that in the event the site gets attacked I can simply re-upload everything and be done.
For the website creation itself I’ve been thinking about using Hugo to start but in the background learn some HTML and build a simple site by myself to replace the original.
What am I not considering or misjudging here?
Are there any other tools I should be looking into?
Any thoughts on this are welcome and apreciated.
One thing you may want to consider, amazon and others do free tier instances. You can get a free EC2 instance, throw hugo on that and set it up for serving your text sites. Benefit being, if you mess something up and it gets hacked or compromised, it’s not infecting your home network. They’re about as powerful as an old pi.
If you’re just serving static html, you can also serve that up straight from a bucket. Which makes backup/failover very easy to setup. And even if you don’t want to give amazon your money, there are plenty of hosting providers that offer similar capabilities and free tiers. The thought being that once you grow beyond the free tier you’ll pay for their services since it’s annoying to move elsewhere.