Also! I'll put together a landing page for this eventually where you can just open a ticket and ask me to help you with a thing, along with the kinds of things I can help with, and the (long) list of stuff I'll gladly talk about for free.

@ajroach42 Great blog post! Ping me if / when you start work on the archiving topic I'd love to help.

@jan thanks!

It’s on the pipeline. Probably feb/March this year.

I'm working on a landing page for this now, where people can open a ticket and ask me to help them with a thing, along with a description of the kinds of things I can help with and the long list of things I'll gladly talk about for free.

So! How do I talk about this!

Like, How do I explain to people the kinds of things that I want to help them with?

And that I'm just a dude that knows some stuff?

Okay, so I'm thinking that I need to work on enumerating the things I am good at (kind of like resume?)

Then I think I should put together some example/sample projects (like the retrocomputer thing up at http://ajroach42.com but smaller in scope) and then set up a landing page with those example projects as a lead in to the more general list, and all of that tied back to a live chat and/or email based ticketing system.

@ajroach42 I think using examples of things you've done already are the best way to convey the kind of stuff you do.

On related note, how do you feel about the different selfhosting solutions? Like yunohost, cloudron, sandstorm etc.

@kelbot Of those, I've only used sandstorm.

I didn't hate it, but I found it limited for my uses. It's easy to use, as long as you don't mind the weird stuff they do with domain names and the weird SSL stuff.

I'll look in to the other to.

@ajroach42 I have only briefly tried those. They seem to have a lot of apps but don't have the specific apps I wanted.

I've been using https://ubos.net/ and I like it quite a bit. It doesn't have a ton of apps but has the ones I actually want to use. It's what I'm using now to selfhost Nextcloud, selfoss and shaarli at home.

@kelbot Nextcloud is pretty easy, I'm not sure about the others.

@ajroach42 I don't think any of them are particularly hard if you know what you're doing and have the time to set it all up.

I have fought with configuring a webserver long enough that I'm not sure it's worth the time spent for me personally. At least with my current knowledge and experience. I was able to deploy everything with letsencrypt cert with ubos in 5 minute increments one evening. Took maybe a total of 30-40 minutes.

@ajroach42 and software! That game you wrote when you were in high school! The ZX spectrum demo you never finished. All those HyperCard or GW basic games rotting on floppies.

I don’t want to let stuff die, so let me help you keep it alive.

@paco sure, but the same can be done less complexly on a standard shared host.

I mostly use Jekyll rather than Hugo, and dreamhost rather than s3, but the end result is the same.

I think, at my peak, I had twenty fairly active websites on a $5/month hosting account.

@ajroach42 Yeah. Not meant as a criticism. I used to help friends and family run web sites, too. I got fed up patching PHP, apache, FreeBSD, and everything else, when 90% of what my friends and family were running were static text. I heard of Jekyll after i discovered Hugo, so I haven't looked into it.

@paco Jekyll works pretty well for blogs. It has struggled with some of the fancier things I want to do. Maybe I’ll give Hugo a go the next time I need to do something weird.

@notabene need is a strong word.

I welcome help, generally, but I think I got this one taken care of.

I’ve been auditing ticketing systems and live chat solutions. It’s just a matter of making a decision now.

In the meantime, though, I’m open to (libre) suggestions.

@ajroach42 Ah, OK. I was thinking about a "simple" landing page. I have no clever suggestion right now —as if I ever have any btw :)

@notabene I mean the landing page itself will be simple, but I gotta rig up the back end before I put a simple front end together.

Otherwise I’d have already done it.

Well, that and all the traveling.

But yeah, I’ll get it done in a few days, and I appreciate the offer.

@ernie a bit! I haven’t done much with Hugo specifically, but I’m learning.

I’ve worked with Jekyll a lot though, and they are similar enough in principal.

What OS are you running?

@ajroach42 MacOS Sierra. I was mostly using Hugo because from what I've read it's the SSG best optimized to handle a lot of content at once.

@ernie that’s what I’ve read too. How much RAM do you have? How many pages are you building?

In my experiments I could do scout 70k in 5GB but that’s the most I’ve ever tried.

@ajroach42 I have 16 gigs, and it appears to not want to build the server in memory. The problem is that while it's 20k articles, it's also something like 80k tags, and that's making it impossible for everything to load into memory to load the server. I want to confirm it's even possible before I put work into a theme for it.

@ernie gotcha.

I’m afraid my Hugo knowledge isn’t deep enough right now to offer Hugo specific answers, but it seems to me that if RAM is the issue, increasing your Swap space might be a solution.

How much free space do you have on your main disk?

@ajroach42 About 80-100 gigs.

@ernie that should be more than enough space for OS X to allocate sufficient swap. I’m wondering if it might not actually be an out of memory error.

Have you tried running Hugo in verbose mode to see what output it gives?

You can also camp the resource monitor to verify your disk and ram usage, and I think you can see swap file use from there too.

If it’s actually an out of memory error, we could force OS X to allocate more swap space, which you have the disk space for.

@ajroach42 Oh, that's also in the "willing and able to pay" category.