White Blue • 3/20/2019

Hugo and IPFS: how this blog works (and scales to serve 5,000% spikes instantly!)

This article details the migration of the blog 'With Blue Ink' from a single-instance VM to a static site built with Hugo and served via IPFS and the Cloudflare Distributed Web Gateway. It describes how the author replaced Jekyll with Hugo to support relative URLs for IPFS, and shares real-world results: a 5,060% traffic spike from Hacker News and Reddit caused zero CPU load increase on the IPFS nodes, demonstrating instant scalability and global performance. The post covers technical challenges, benefits of static sites, and the open-source nature of the project.

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