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Migrating my Hugo static site from Netlify to Render

I’ve been using Netlify to host my Hugo static site for the past few years, and I’ve been very happy with the service. However, I recently decided to switch to Render, a new static site hosting provider.

Migrating to Render

Migrating to Render

There were a few reasons why I decided to switch to Render. First, I love checking out easier abstractions and making it simpler to do automated builds which Render offered. You can deploy a Hugo static site on Render in under a minute. Your site is served over a lightning-fast global CDN, comes with fully managed TLS certificates, and supports custom domains out of the box. Best of all, it’s free! (The Individual Tier is pretty generous!)

The migration process from Netlify to Render was very straightforward. I followed the instructions on the Render website, and my site was up and running on Render in less than 10 minutes.

Here are the steps I followed to migrate my Hugo static site from Netlify to Render:

  • I created a new account on Render.

  • I linked my GitHub repository to Render.

  • I ran the following command to deploy my site:

    Build Command hugo --gc --minify
    Publish Directory public

  • I waited for Render to deploy my site. (It also provided a hosted domain on “custom blog name”.onrender.com)

  • (For custom domain) I switched the Cloudflare domain redirect from Netlify URL to Render’s URL

  • I verified (about 5 mins for DNS propogation) that my site was up and running on Render on my own domain.

That’s it! The migration process was very straightforward. If you’re following these steps, you should be able to migrate your Hugo static site from Netlify to Render in less than 10 minutes.

Here are some of the benefits of using Render:

Cheers 🥂