- Hugo with IntelliJ IDEA for writing and Hugo’s live reload server for previewing.
- Deployment is automated via a bash script triggered by git push or GitHub webhooks.
- The site is hosted on a DigitalOcean server with nginx, PageSpeed module, and brotli compression.
- This setup achieved a 100/100 Google PageSpeed score on both mobile and desktop.
- A $5/month DigitalOcean server handled 10,000 requests/second for plain HTML.
- Strong HTTPS reduced capacity to about 4,000 requests/second.
- Google PageSpeed module dropped throughput to 150 clients/second.
- Brotli compression at maximum level further reduced it to 75 clients/second but significantly shrank file sizes.