Hosted Jekyll

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Categories: publishing

Tonight, I read a great blog post by Jared White on using Jekyll for publishing site content. I’ve used Jekyll in the past, but then hosted the resulting site on my own server. I hate that solution because my server is frequently down, or in various states of disrepair. Not pretty.

Jared uses a Bitbucket plug-in, Aerobatic, which takes care of pushing your Bitbucket-managed content to Amazon’s CloudFront CDN when new commits are made. It’s beautiful!

There was a little bit of configuration to be done for my custom domain setup to work (DNS entries to change, etc.), but within an hour I had this site online and being served up through the Amazon cloud; my server is out of the equation!

Next, I’d like to read up on the release notes for Jekyll 3 and find out what goodies it’s got in store.