Building a personal website

I’ve picked up my own .dev domain and have set up a very basic website at paulhadfield.dev. The site is hosted in Azure and I’ve set up continuous integration/deployment up in DevOps pipelines. As well as scratching that itch of creating my own website, something I’ve been talking about for a while, it will allow me to learn more about various Azure technologies. This is part of my plan to look into becoming a certified Azure Architect.

I’m not sure how long I’ll be able to keep the site up and running because it’s currently using the free first month, to have both custom domains and SSL certificates you need to use a production instance of a web application, which costs at least £50 per month. It will be a good experiment for a while but won’t be able to justify that cost on-going. Hopefully, I’ll either find a cheaper way of hosting it or a way to make it pay for itself.