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My blog is now an international success. I get like 3 hits from Google a day. That's what they call Seomaxxing. Or not. Depends who you ask.

Nevertheless, I noticed my audience comes mostly from outside Europe. My server sits in Frankfurt, so the only reasonable choice was to put a global CDN in front of my static Astro blog.

Easy, I thought.

I jumped straight in without reading anything first. What could go wrong. A lot, actually, and I can now confirm that the error pages from Bunny.net look really nice.

Got it working anyway. Full writeup on said blog, blazing fast no matter where you are:

https://hmmr.online/posts/bunny-cdn-for-a-static-blog/

Hi everyone,

I am currently in the final stages of launching my own IT services company. My plan is to use this ERP internally for my own processes and workflows, but also to offer implementation and consulting services to other businesses as an expert.

While researching, I have noticed a polarized pattern in this subreddit: posts seem to fall into two categories. Either people are absolutely thrilled with the software, or they think it is terrible. I am trying to get past the hype and the horror stories to understand the reality.

So, my question is straightforward: How bad is it really? Or conversely, how good is it? I am looking for a balanced perspective on the actual strengths and weaknesses you have encountered in production environments, specifically from the viewpoint of someone planning to build a business around it.

Thanks in advance for your honest insights.

Migrated from Hugo mainly because I wanted a per-post view counter (self-hosted Umami). Went in assuming that's exactly what Islands are for.

Ended up not touching them.

Went full static instead, counter is just a TS module that hits the Umami API at build time and bakes the numbers into the HTML. Site rebuilds daily, zero JS shipped, still 100 on Lighthouse.

Full writeup: https://hmmr.online/posts/why-astro-not-hugo/

Hi there,

I am still working on my Codeberg review but since Codeberg deserves much more attention, I thought I could publish this instead first. It's a really great alternative for the AI dumpster fire that GitHub has become.

I enjoy using it.

Did any of you switch to Codeberg yet? Or still in GitHub?