Thanks to @amin I now have a second host for my blog, so it's now also available at https://sotolf.polymaths.page will be nice for the times that codeberg is down ;)
it turned out in the end it wasn't that tricky to set up
basically just adding
rsync -av --exclude .git -e ssh ~/hugo/public/ sotolf@polymaths.page:~/sotolf.polymaths.page/
into my publish script and it seems like it works, and should be updated in the future as well :) nice
@amin It turns out my whole blog is 3.4 Mb to host as well, so it shouldn't be too much of a strain on the server, I did clean it up a bit by turning off generation of social cards, which I never use, and then exclude the git folder, because that doesn't really make sense for just hosting the page itself, growth will also keep down I think since it's just text anyway :p
Jun 8, 2026, 10:42 AMYeah, static sites are super cheap/lightweight/easy to host. :)
The current server load:
amin@polymaths:~$ uptime
10:42:06 up 4 days, 21:17, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00
(this is including a dozen or so of my own sites)
@amin Yeah, and I guess most of that load are people updating their site or trying stuff :p
Jun 8, 2026, 12:24 PMFor comparison, the load on my main server is 0.49, 0.36, 0.38, which is also surprisingly low for how much stuff I host with it.
@amin Yeah, I kind of would expect that to be more, quite a lot of the stuff there isn't really low impact stuff :)
Jun 8, 2026, 1:39 PMThe hugest difference was using an SSD for databases. So so so much better for the things I need.
Jun 8, 2026, 10:39 AMGlad that worked so easily! :D
@amin I did struggle a tiny bit to get the folder to end up correctly, and find out how to exclude the .git folder once I realised that it started uploading it, so I ended up with 3-4 "rm -rf"'s but all in all it was really easy, and since it's just a command line away, automating it was supremely easy, just copy pasting the working command into my publish script, and it works, I'll be using this for my links, and then just leave the codeberg one as a mirror, since it's all set up, and where I have the sources mirrored as well :D
Jun 8, 2026, 10:52 AMAwesome! Great job. :)