I migrated my blog from Ghost to Hugo. Ghost is awesome but it doesn’t make sense to pay US$5/month just to host and maintain a blog that I hardly update.
The blog used to be a static site powered by Jekyll and Github. However, I find the deployment workflow too much for a simple blog:
- Create and write a page
- Generate the site with a comamnd I can’t remember
- Commit and push to Github
I didn’t have many posts to migrate but I still need to backup all my static contents. My previous mistake was to shift my post without taking care of the images, which made my posts broken.
Here’s what I did to migrate my posts:
Compress all the images in
/var/www/ghost/contents/images
usingtar -zcvf images.tar.gz .
Use
scp
to download the file from the server.I couldn’t use
ghostToHugo
on Mac OS and I’m really lazy to write a script to convert my posts. I took some of my old posts from Jekyll (already in markdown) and created new posts for those that were not on Jekyll.I have to changed the permalinks such that my posts in Hugo will appear as
<url>/<title>
instead of<url>/posts/<title>
. This is really easy.
Once I’m ready, I signed up a free account over at netlify.com to auto deploy my static sites properly. Then I modified my DNS over at cloudflare.com to point to my new host. Cloudflare makes my life a lot easier since I don’t have to modify anything to support HTTPS
.
My site is now officially generated by Hugo. It’s so much faster in terms of page speed.
Best of all? I don’t have to pay for my hosting ☺️