I’ve been moving this blog from one host to another from time to time. As I write less and less and less frequently, having a paid host doesn’t seems make sense anymore. Well, it’s not that expensive, but money spend still money spend right. Despite, I want to have a challenge to find the most cost efficient host. 😀
So this is how I do it now (warning: it’s quite technical):
- Run wordpress on my desktop (via docker container)
- Has Simply Static plugin. The pro version actually has the feature to automate a lot of thing. But as I said, I want to get it to $0. So this is the problem.
- So this is why we have AI today, right. It should helped us solved our problem. So instead of cracking the code and spend hours of testing/debugging/reading documentation, Claude help me on this part.
- In a highlevel, Claude help me to add mu-plugin (TBH, I’m not sure what it is.. Haha), and setup some script.
- The output is: Everytime I create/edit/delete a post or page, it will automatically trigger a static site generation, publish it to Git Repo.
- Since I’ve setup Vercel to connect with this repo, it’ll jus automatically updated. It’ll take some times of course (maybe ~5-10min). But hey.., it’s free..
Now let see, if you are reading this post. That means, the whole flow is working as intended. Thanks to Claude, WordPress, Github and Vercel.
*I still paid for Claude subscription of course, but it’s intended for other project, so no additional cost.