A while back I set up a personal website for myself. It was left for a while and recently I made some improvements to it. As I was doing the improvements I decided to write up how it was built since there were certain aspects of the work I found interesting.

There are similar stories out there like this one or this one. However, their setup is a bit different or does not go into some details I cover. Plus it never hurts to have additional resources when you are building something.

When I first started, all I needed was some static assets which I could change on occasion, therefore, I did not need a server running all the time. I decided to deploy through AWS since I’m more familiar with this setup and it was relatively cheap. One of the improvements I made to it recently was using Github actions for deployments since I had to move code over to a new laptop.

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