Netlify

I recently moved lbolla.info to Digital Garden. The notes are now published and deployed on Netlify. Here are some notes about the whole setup.

Project

lbolla.info is a project in Netlify. The project has a GitHub repo from which it deploys. Staging deploys are possible from the repo branches.

Plan

The "Personal" plan includes generous traffic and deployments for 9 USD/month. I think this is enough for me. 9 USD/month may seem like a lot, but:

• Obsidian Publish goes for 8 USD/month and it's less flexible

• Doesn't require me to maintain my own blogging solution, even if as simple as Hugo.
• It's the price of 2 coffees, where I live.

DNS

Netlify manages DNS records for the lbolla.info project. I had to copy over DNS records from AWS Route53 (my previous DNS provider) and amend the nameservers in my domain's registrar.

I forgot to copy over CNAMEs, so I broke email in the process... For posterity, always remember to check DNS records (MX, TXT and CNAME) with dig. E.g.:

dig @dns1.p05.nsone.net lbolla.info MX
dig @dns1.p05.nsone.net lbolla.info TXT
dig @dns1.p05.nsone.net protonmail2._domainkey.lbolla.info CNAME
...

Luckily ProtonMail warned me of the misconfiguration and I could fix it without downtime.

Next steps

• Netlify can also act as registrar. I may move lbolla.info away from AWS, which is way more complicated for my taste.