Deploying my site

Updated: Wed Mar 19 2025

I scheduled a full day to try deploying my new site on a new host on a completely new service for me. It took six minutes.

You can also just use GitHub pages, which uses Jekyll as its SSG. I didn’t want to use Jekyll or a canned set of themes.

Netlify and Cloudflare seem to be the two most popular hosts for SSGs. Both seem very robust.

Deploying my test site was this simple:

  1. Create a Netlify account by connecting it to my GitHub repo.
  2. Point Netlify to the branch I wanted to publish from (main).
  3. Select Eleventy as my SSG.
  4. Press Publish.

In a process that was fraught, it was a relief to know I could go live so quickly and easily. I even pointed one of the domains I own to Netlify so I could test on various devices.