Website on vellosa.com

Initial website creation with Hugo

Thu, 14 May 2026 09:52:00 +0200

After deciding to create another personal blog and choosing the technologies, the next step is to build the basic site.

For this I’ve been using a Debian laptop for local Hugo development. Unfortunately, the Hugo version available through the Debain package manager was quite old, so I downloaded the latest release directly from GitHub instead.

From a browser navigate to the Hugo releases page and download the latest .deb package. Then to install Hugo package, run the command (with the updated version number):

Hosting on GitLab

Thu, 14 May 2026 18:21:00 +0200

Setting up the site using GitLab Pages

Personal domain name

Fri, 15 May 2026 09:15:00 +0200

GitLab provides a stable platform for hosting the site, however, the domain name does not look profesional. Hosting on a personal domain name looks a lot better. The steps I have for this are:

Purchasing a domain through Infomaniak
Setting up a CloudFlare Proxy for the DNS name
Configuring GitLab pages
Update to the Hugo base URL config