Alan’s Personal Techy Website

  • Backing up to gcloud storage from Linux/Virtualmin

    Using Google Cloud Storage as backup for your linux server is inexpensive if you use the nearline storage option. This is cheaper that Amazon Web Services (at the time of writing) The process I use is as follows. Backup locally Create storage bucket / folders, set lifecycle Script to move backups find way to execute…

  • Export WordPress Content to Hugo

    Download zip from here and install plugin https://github.com/SchumacherFM/wordpress-to-hugo-exporter

  • Hosting a Static Site on Amazon web Services

    Really need to use Route 53 DNS so make this a bit different.   http://docs.aws.amazon.com/gettingstarted/latest/swh/website-hosting-intro.html

  • Build and host a static website with Hugo and Google Cloud Storage

    WordPress is overkill for 90% of small business websites, especially if they are only every going to ask the web developer to make changes.  Static websites used to be just that, static, but now it is possible to create static websites that are simple (relatively) to update dynamically.   Hugo is a Golang project that…

  • 14 places to get Free Stock Images for Websites

    Sourcing images for websites is a tricky and time consuming businesses. The worse thing you can do is go to Google, find and image you like and download it and upload it to your website.  It is not rare that the copyright owner will find you and request payment for the use you ‘stole’ from…

  • Integrating Google Forms / Sheets to External API

    This example is of Google Forms submitting to Fresh Desk Google forms is an easy to use form builder that has  many uses.  One advantage of Google Forms is that is is effectively free, either within ‘consumer’ Google Accounts, or more importantly is business Google Apps for Work / Education / Government accounts. When automating…