How this site works.

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Basic overview of the working of this site and such.

Domain:

  • The domain has been purchased via porkbun.
  • 失われた心 in the url is via punycode.

Deployment:

  • It currently is deployed via netlify, via a private git repository. Later, It’ll be moved a VPS1, preferably Contabo or Vultr and will be using nginx.

Analytics:

  • It is possible to view this site’s analytics at piratepx.
  • It loads a 1x1 .gif file that sends a counter += counter request.
  • Upon getting a VPS1, we will be self-hosting either plausible, or shynet.

Production:

  • We use neovim as a code-editor.
  • We use hugo as a SSG2, it is blazingly fast and very satisfactory.
  • The theme in use is poison. It is pretty.

Services:

The following services are currently being considered.

  • Gitea – for git repositories.
  • Plausible or shynet – for website analytics.
  • Uguu (or an in-house solution) – a temporary file host.
  • Piped – Open source YouTube frontend.

Support:

VPS1 costs are high. Support us by sending XMR3 at (placeholder).


  1. Virtual Private Server. ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎

  2. Static Site Generator ↩︎

  3. Monero ↩︎