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1.6 KiB
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26 lines
1.6 KiB
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title: "ridgwaysystems.org is live"
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date: 2026-03-11
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tags: [meta, go, freebsd]
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slug: site-is-live
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description: "The site is up. A single Go binary on FreeBSD, serving blog posts, a status page, a hire page, and an admin panel — no database, no Docker, no external dependencies."
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draft: false
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---
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It's up.
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ridgwaysystems.org is now running on a Vultr VPS — FreeBSD, nginx for TLS termination, a single Go binary handling everything behind it. No database. No Docker. No framework. Flat Markdown files on disk, templates compiled into the binary at startup, HMAC-signed sessions, and a background goroutine that checks service health every few minutes.
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The stack:
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- **Go** — stdlib `net/http` with 1.22 pattern routing. One binary, one deploy, done.
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- **FreeBSD** — nginx as the reverse proxy, certbot for TLS certs, rc.d for service management.
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- **Flat files** — posts are `.md` files in `content/posts/`. The status page reads from `data/status.json`. Newsletter subscribers live in `data/subscribers.json`.
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- **No build step** — CSS is hand-written, no preprocessor. JS is a single file for the admin editor.
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Features that made it in before launch: blog with next/prev navigation, a status page with live HTTP health checks, a hire page with a contact form (rate-limited, honeypot, CSRF), a newsletter subscribe widget, admin panel with post editor, image uploads, and subscriber management, syntax-highlighted code blocks via Chroma, and an RSS feed.
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The source is at [git.ridgwaysystems.org](https://git.ridgwaysystems.org).
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More build posts to follow — the nginx config alone is worth documenting.
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