---
title: "New hosting"
date: 2021-12-17T17:26:07-06:00
---

After years of hosting this blog on [Netlify](https://www.netlify.com/), I've
decided to finally move it to my [Dokku](https://dokku.com/) server hosted with
[Linode](https://www.linode.com/). Don't get me wrong Netlify is great, but
I realised I wanted a bit more control over my own hosting and Dokku gives me
that. I'd like to spin up a [Gemini](gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/) site at
some point in the future and hosting on my own server should make that much
easier.

After playing around with various buildpacks to build the site on Dokku I ended
up settling on a custom `Dockerfile` config that works great and means I can
deploy in less than two minutes.

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```dockerfile
# Dockerfile
FROM alpine:latest
RUN apk add --no-cache bash hugo
WORKDIR /app
COPY . ./
```

```sh
# Procfile
release: hugo -v
web: hugo server --disableLiveReload --bind '0.0.0.0' -p ${PORT}
```

This was all that was required to get things up and running. The site generates
a lot of resized images on build so I needed to mount a volume to make sure that
was persistent between deploys.