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Moving away from Medium to self-hosted blogging for good

Hossain Khan

I am not a regular blogger by any means averaging a post every 5-6 months. I have been using Medium for a while now before they became popular and paywall became a thing. Since then, I wasn’t very fond of their platform and I have been looking for alternatives for a while now.

Until recently I have decided to leverage AI agents to setup my blog site site the way I want it! 💪🏽

Lately I have been playing a lot with Cloudflare and it’s services which has generous free tier and I have been loving it. Based on quick research Astro seemed like a good fit given they were recently aquired by Cloudflare.

Astro and Cloudflare Workers

The setup wasn’t smooth sailing because of custom theme I chose called Devosfera. It did not come with a Cloudflare Workers adapter and I had to do some custom configuration to make it work.

Another funny thing was that the theme was built by Spanish author and the labels were in Spanish. I had to translate them to English which was a fun experience.

Verdict

Overall I think it was worth the effort and I am happy with the result. I have full control over my content and I can customize the site to my liking.


Here is the GitHub repo that serves this blog site:

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