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> … and no risk of platforms disappearing or changing policies.

Those risks still exist. GitHub and Cloudflare can do these things at any moment.

I think the point was more about mitigating the risk of being locked in to a platform with bespoke authoring tools. GitHub and Cloudflare are very convenient with their generous free services, but if you had to a hugo blog could still be hosted on any web server in the world.

> GitHub and Cloudflare can do these things at any moment

I hosted mine in AWS S3 with CloudFront for Https and custom domain. Using Hugo too. I wrote Cloudformation template for whole setup [0], just create the CFN stack using template in AWS. Then copy public html to S3 using "aws s3 sync" and done!

[0] https://github.com/neutor/bite-sized-aws/blob/main/static-s3...

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