Setting up a static blog

[VincentTam]

Hi Ciro,

Thanks for your effort in raising our awareness about PRC's status !!!

Given that your posts are written in Markdown, have you ever considered making this a static web site? In general, you can simply place everything under the content folder and deploy to GitHub/GitLab Pages.

For instance, GitHub has built-in Jekyll support so that users can build a Jekyll web site in minutes.

[cirosantilli]

Hi Vincent,

What's the advantage of a static website? It's more moving parts / further from stars / issues ;-)

I have a Jekyll on my home page currently: http://www.cirosantilli.com/

But I saw the light and am moving to HUGE SINGLE PAGE ASCIIDOC, that is the ultimate method, FAQ is already in asciidoc: https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/blob/ffa455d0e0c3b5f27ba6c133e417ded8a92ec247/FAQ.adoc and see this beautiful larger ASCIIDOC example: https://github.com/cirosantilli/linux-kernel-module-cheat

[VincentTam]

Currently, this project's content is hosted on a dynamic site. A static site is more reliable than a dynamic one, especially when the traffic is large, since static web servers concentrate on content delivery.

The Markdown source code for posts remains hosted on remote Git repo, so interested readers can find the repo Git repo and star it.

In terms of issues, it can be focused on technical problems of the site. In the model of static sites, comments/questions about the site's contents can be handled by Staticman.

You may also post a large single page doc and get it rendered by any static site generator.

[cirosantilli]

I think github's speed and uptime is enough, if you find concrete evidence that it is not for someone e.g. in china vs a static site, send it my way.

Also I wonder if it wouldn't be easier for china to block cirosantilli.github.io vs github.com/

[VincentTam]

Also I wonder if it wouldn't be easier for china to block cirosantilli.github.io vs github.com/

It would be likely to block the two together. The former can't persist without the later. However, as long as you've got the Git repo, you get deploy it to other web hosts.

[VincentTam]

Update: rare failure of GitHub when I was about to open an issue.

[cirosantilli]

Yes, I saw something a few minutes ago too. But GitHub status doesn't say anything. Weird.

[VincentTam]

This reminds me a classical Chinese idiom "a crafty rabbit has three burrows" (狡兔三窟): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Mengchang#A_crafty_hare_has_three_burrows.

[cirosantilli]

Oh, and they changed IP addresses, git pull gave:

Warning: Permanently added the RSA host key for IP address '140.82.114.3' to the list of known hosts.

[VincentTam]

The changing of GitHub's IP address is another example of this four-word proverb, even that's not what I intended to mean when I left my last comment—I was thinking about having other (free as in freedom) Git service providers, like GitLab.