Ghost - binarydreams

How the blog was built part 5 - import a backup

A few times I have had to manually re-import the blog data... I've done this enough times and I need to update the Ghost blog version and fix any Snyk reported security issues. I will automate all this and will show the scripts that will help import a backup automatically.

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How the blog was built part 4 - migration

I finally did it. I finally went and bought a Macbook and the M1 Air at that. The first three parts in this series document how I built the static Ghost blog in a Windows environment and now I have MacOS to contend with.

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How the blog was built part 3 - update

So in part 2 we backed the Ghost files up. Now we are going to create the static files and then upload them to S3. Hosting the websiteI'm using an AWS S3 bucket to host the website with CloudFlare routing and this article was instrumental in setting it up so

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How the blog was built part 2 - backup

At this point I now have customised the original GitHub scripts and made it more configurable than before but having so many different commands to run meant I really wanted an easier way to back up the existing Ghost content and files. I had run into some issues and when

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How the blog was built part 1 - the static files

My previous blog was built with BlogEngine.NET and blog post content saved in files on the Azure web server because I didn't want the hassle and the costs of a database. I decided to leave Azure for AWS because Microsoft decided to change the terms on the developer subscription