When Sarah and I were creating this blog, we researched a lot of hosting options. We loved the user friendly Wordpress, thought long and hard about the google backed blogger, but knew we wanted our own domain without spending huge sums every month. Luckily, I am in a relationship with a computer whiz who came up with a hosting solution that would allow us to have our own domain, full control over the look of our site, and best of all, it was free!

Our site is hosted on GitLab pages and built using Jekyll. We bought our domain and pay a 15$ yearly fee to keep it. All in all, we are happy with our set up. That’s not to say there aren’t drawbacks. For one thing, Sarah and I break code things. A lot. Luckily Shane (my significant other and the computer whiz mentioned above) has become our webmaster and helps fix the things we break. Often with a shake of his head and a “I don’t even understand how you managed this!” We are apparently very impressive site breakers.

Another drawback is that though Jekyll has allowed us to truly customize our site, our blog is technically a static page, and so there are a lot of plugins that won’t work. One of them being the plugin that lets you have people sign up for new post notifications. So that has been unfortunate.

To help combat this, we’ve joined Blog Lovin’ which allows people to follow blogs through an account there. If you like our site, please be sure to click here to follow our blog through Blog Lovin and never miss a post!