It’s a new year so I thought I’d change a few things up. I’ve started using a new blogging framework. I’ve switched to a static hosted site via AWS’s S3. To do this I started to use Hexo.io. I wanted to change from a complete CMS to something that required me to think. This has made it a little harder to blog and post things but its causing me to use new technolgies along the way. Hexo.io is a static site generator written in npm/nodejs, it crates the site from simple markdown files.

I’ll complie a list of things I’ve used to get the most out of the Hexo.io implementation.

1. I wanted to be able to write the blog from home or whilst I’m out on a laptop, to achive this I’ve created the Hexo server in an EC2 instance.
2. How to setup a Hexo.io box I used these two sites: Site1 and Site2
3. Learnt how to write basic markdown files as I’ve been avoiding this when commiting to Github. Markdown Cheat Sheet
4. Learnt how to use an S3 bucket to host a static site as well as still link it back to my domain name.
5. TODO: Need to learn how to make an S3 bucket HTTPS://.