Locking Down SSH in a DMZ for Hugo Deployments

Hardening SSH access to a DMZ web server revealed an overlooked dependency in my Hugo deployment pipeline: the server also needs outbound SSH to pull from Git.

February 18, 2026 · Updated today · 5 min · Roland Hill

Self-Hosted Hugo Comments with Private Gitea

How I built a secure, self-hosted comment system for Hugo using private Gitea as the backend, proxied safely through Nginx.

March 2, 2026 · Updated March 4, 2026 · 2 min · Roland Hill

Automating Hugo Deployments with hillpush (Git-Based Workflow)

How this site is published: a small helper script commits and pushes to a self-hosted Gitea, and a build host in the DMZ pulls, rebuilds and syncs the site. Includes what I learned rebuilding it after losing the Git server.

February 19, 2026 · Updated today · 7 min · Roland Hill