Hosting a Jekyll blog on Netlify via GitHub

Do the changes, push to GitHub. Auto-build and served by Netlify, easy as that!

May 24, 2020

Smooth hosting

So, after getting the blog onto Jekyll (see last post), next step was to get the hosting situation figured out. Before I used Jekyll I pushed changes into a Dropbox folder connected to fast.io, which served the website. I’ve now changed it up, since Jekyll requires a build process. Pushing to GitHub repository and Netlify takes it from there. You can follow step-by-step-instructions here.

It is incredibly smooth and simple this way. Just push to GitHub whenever there is a new post or change to publish, and that’s it.

Build time is a few minutes.