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title: Getting Ready
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categories: ["introduction"]
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After contemplating about different options for hosting, blogging technologies and domain names for a couple of days, I have settled on the following configurations for now!
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### Domain Name
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[Bionic Beanie](https://theportalwiki.com/wiki/Bionic_Beanie) is a head wear from [Portal 2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal_2) co-op. Portal series is one of my favourite PC games and **Bionic Beanie Blog** sounded great in my head.
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Bought it right away from [Go Daddy](https://in.godaddy.com/). The package included DNS hosting as well.
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### Blog Tech
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I wanted to use a static site generator as opposed to any CMS like Wordpress. They should be faster and easier to configure/manage. [Jekyll](https://jekyllrb.com/) is what I settled with - mainly because I [recognise the name from my childhood](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Case_of_Dr_Jekyll_and_Mr_Hyde).
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To fasttrack my site design, I decided to use [Lanyon](https://github.com/poole/lanyon#readme) which is an extension of [Poole](https://getpoole.com/) - which I also [recognize from my childhood](https://study.com/academy/lesson/mr-poole-in-dr-jekyll-mr-hyde.html).
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### Hosting my blog
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Bought the cheapest VPS from [Vultr](https://www.vultr.com/) for $5 a month - 1GB RAM and a single core shared server. This is more than good enough for hosting my static files. I might end up using this instance for some of my other projects too.
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### Working Setup
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[LetsEncrypt](https://letsencrypt.org/) helped issuing free ssl cert for my domain.
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The server will run behind an [nginx](https://www.nginx.com/) instance serving static files from `_site` folder that are built as part of jekyll build process. Having set the config up [this way](https://gist.github.com/cool-mist/9663a14d0821211b34b7e5f970f6f4e4), I just have to clone and build the files to publish new changes. I will push the blog site data to a remote git repository to manage the articles.
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### Logo
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The letters signify the first letter of the site's name. The color scheme is a reference to the two different portal colors in Portal.
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**Let's Go**
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