I wanted to cover off how I currently host this blog for free using a number of services being offered by different companies.
what do you need this days? This website has a few moving parts:
Blog software Webhosting SSL Certificates SSL Forwarding The following post describes how I managed to get all of the above setup for free.
Blog Software I’m currently using jekyll to for my blogging software. This allows me to create a bunch of files and using some Ruby markup the files into a HTML blog.
Bandwidth theft or “hotlinking” is direct linking to a web site’s files (images, video, etc.). An example would be using an tag to display a JPEG image you found on someone else’s web page so it will appear on your own site, eBay auction listing, weblog, forum message post, etc.
Bandwidth refers to the amount of data transferred from a web site to a user’s computer. When you view a web page, you are using that site’s bandwidth to display the files.
I wanted to cover off some interesting work I’ve been doing with website minification that I wanted to share. The size of the average web page (top 300,000 websites) passed 1600K for the first time in July. We’re cramming more images and html into our websites and with all this information we need to ensure a responsive experience for the users of our sites. It’s useful to regularly check the size of pages and take actions to try and minimize website sizes.
