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Automated hosting of a Hugo website

This tutorial describes how to make a Hugo based website available for everyone over the Internet. The website would be automatically rebuilt every time we promote a change to the code repository. All of this for free. Preconditions A local website generated build with Hugo - see “A website using Hugo” tutorial. Overview Hosting of static websites is provided by many services and in this tutorial we will use one of them: render.

A website using Hugo

This tutorial will describe how to build a static website using Hugo. The main programming language utilised in Websites is the HTML. To see an example of HTML code, right click on this page and choose “View page source”. It is pretty complicated, especially if you want to build professionally looking pages. Hugo allows us to build beautiful websites without the need of knowing HTML. To start with, choose an imaginary company you would build the website for.