https://cloudmato.com/tags/deployment/Recent content in Deployment on cloudmato.comHugo -- gohugo.ioencloudmato.comcloudmato.comMon, 01 Jun 2026 22:45:10 +0530https://cloudmato.com/posts/build-deploy-static-site-hugo/Mon, 01 Jun 2026 22:45:10 +0530cloudmato.comhttps://cloudmato.com/posts/build-deploy-static-site-hugo/<p>Most blogs I have seen over the years run on WordPress — a database, PHP, plugins, security patches every other week. A lot of moving parts for a site that basically publishes text. Hugo is the opposite of all that. No database. No runtime. Just plain HTML files served off a CDN, generated in under a second.</p> <h2 class="header-anchor-wrapper">What is Hugo exactly — and why is it so fast? <a href="#what-is-hugo-exactly--and-why-is-it-so-fast" class="header-anchor-link"> <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="1rem" height="1rem" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round"> <line x1="4" y1="9" x2="20" y2="9"></line><line x1="4" y1="15" x2="20" y2="15"></line><line x1="10" y1="3" x2="8" y2="21"></line><line x1="16" y1="3" x2="14" y2="21"></line> </svg> </a> </h2> <p>Hugo is an open-source static site generator written in Go [1]. You write content in Markdown, pick a theme, run one command, and it produces a folder of plain HTML, CSS, and JS. That folder is your entire website. Nothing runs on the server. No PHP, no Python, no Node process to keep alive.</p>