title: “Third-Party Services Used by My Blog” slug: d287b392 date: 2021-01-02 13:34:58 tags:
- 随笔心得 summary: “An overview of third-party services powering my personal blog, with setup notes and brief impressions.”
元旦假期，花了点时间部署了个人的英文博客站点，与中文博客使用的服务，技术一致，本身只是内容的区别，因此也算回顾了博客部署中用到的vendor服务，这里梳理下。
Hexojs — static blog framework
Using Hexo: posts are written in Markdown and compiled to static HTML, so it’s fast to serve. Downsides: as content grows, build times slow. With 300+ Chinese posts, a full build took ~8 minutes.
This remains unresolved for now.
theme-next
I use theme-next. I customize parts, but keep custom templates/CSS separate to ease framework/theme upgrades.
Vultr
I deployed static pages on Vultr Japan, $6/mo — decent speed from mainland China.
Now migrated to Tencent Cloud.
GitHub
Source code is hosted on GitHub; CD uses GitHub Actions. It’s stable and free.
Telegram Bot
I added notifications for deployments; Telegram is ideal. Using appleboy/telegram-action.
Notes
- token通过
@BotFather获取，token的格式是1234567890:ABCDEFGHIJKLMN - 利用token获取chartId的URL是
https://api.telegram.org/bot1234567890:ABCDEFGHIJKLMN/getUpdates，注意如果返回的结果提示OK，但result没有值，则向创建的bot发送一条消息，再试即可
Let’s Encrypt
Most sites are on SSL now; I use Let’s Encrypt because it’s free and Certbot automates issuance/renewal.
Since I host both Chinese/English sites and an image host, I applied for a wildcard cert.
GitTalk
Comment system based on GitHub Issues — convenient.
Algolia
Search: fast, good UX, and free tier.
Google AdSense
Hosting isn’t free; AdSense may offset costs. Ads do slow page loads, admittedly.
Google Search Console
Webmaster tools:
- SEO for Google: submit sitemaps for crawling
- Monitor site traffic
Final Thoughts
That’s the stack of third‑party services behind my blog. Even a small blog ties together quite a lot of tech.
