Migration to a new domain and hosting

Contents

1. Important notice
2. What changed

Important notice

For regular readers and feed subscribers (if there are any), the new address is https://blamster19.net. The GitHub link https://blamster19.github.io will not be updated in the future.

What changed

I migrated my site from GitHub Pages to Codeberg Pages. This is a part of my larger move towards the digital independence from the Big Tech entities. The move was relatively painless, I just had to:

• create a new branch named pages holding a subtree located in the directory with the HTML files - Codeberg expects the HTML to reside in the root directory
• create a file .domains that lists the domains from which I want my site to be reachable (not sure if it's needed now)
• push to a Codeberg repository named pages
• create a webhook in the repository with the target URL being my custom domain and branch filter set to pages
• create the DNS records in my registrar: ALIAS codeberg.page. and TXT https://codeberg.org/blamster19/pages.git, the second one with host _git-pages-repository.www.blamster19.net
• pushing changes is done with $ git subtree push --prefix pages codeberg gh-pages where pages is the branch with HTML files, codeberg is the Codeberg remote and gh-pages is the repository containing all project files

I got a domain from https://porkbun.com. Not much to say here, So far it looks good.

Figuring those things out is very fun and rewarding. I definitely advise to try and set up a website from scratch and hook it up to your own domain. I even had my own infamous DNS problems along the way!