/tags/netlify/Recent content in Netlify on Mad BlogHugo -- gohugo.ioen-gbmadking.direct@gmail.com (Mad King)madking.direct@gmail.com (Mad King)Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000/posts/setting-up-netlify-for-hugo/Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000madking.direct@gmail.com (Mad King)/posts/setting-up-netlify-for-hugo/<p>In my last post I walked through hosting a Hugo blog on AWS S3 with CloudFront. It works, but let&rsquo;s be honest — it&rsquo;s a lot of moving parts. S3 bucket, CloudFront distribution, IAM policies, DNS records, cache invalidation. If your blog is the only thing on the line, that&rsquo;s a fair bit of overhead.</p> <p>A few people asked whether there&rsquo;s a simpler way. There is.</p> <p>This post covers hosting the same Hugo blog on Netlify — the zero-config, free HTTPS, push-to-deploy alternative.</p>