Budget Webhosting
I recently realized that I was overpaying for a bloated and laggy Wordpress website that was basically serving up a static website for my resume of projects. After working with some of the dev-minded folks at SCAR, I was turned on to the free tier of VM hosting on Oracle Cloud which offers a 1 CPU core 1GB RAM instance at no charge. It seemed perfect for my use case! Being relatively low power, I figured I would keep it simple and bring my personal site back to basics (with a little help from my friends). A simple HTML site would be a little too boring, but all of the frameworks I'm familiar with might be too heavy for this free host. I recalled a friend wrote a neat little python script to make publishing Markdown as light and servable...
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