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title: "A whole year of being a webmaster!"
date: 2023-07-19
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I'm a bit late but better late than sorry, I guess. So, this website is officially one year old!
Man, has this been a journey. Not a very long or eventful one, but still dope.
This journey started in May 2022 because that's when I finally got a -well, multiple- domains!

I've tried to build multiple iterations of vidhukant.xyz (now vidhukant.com) over the past year. 
This iteration won. And on 9th July, this site turned one! It's not a very big project, but I'm so so proud of it.
I still haven't met my goals, I don't have a regular audience, I don't even write regularly. 
I seriously need to (and will!) fix that. But in the background, I've been doing many cool things!
This ["brain dump"](https://bt.ht/dump/) of a blog really means a lot to me, but I guess I haven't had much of brain to dump lately.
But there'd definitely will be more interesting content coming soon to this site, for sure.

# The history of vidhukant.com

It all started from my laptop. I had set up my domain to redirect to an ngrok tunnel to my laptop.
Nice placeholder, but not practical. Also since I wanted to host a mailserver, it wasn't for me!
So I got Vultr, which is the hosting service this random guy on the internet called [Luke Smith](https://lukesmith.xyz) uses.
On there I hosted a very basic HTML page that looked much like this site's homepage, and started developing [vidhublog](https://dev.vidhukant.xyz/vidhublog)
which was my attempt on creating a blog website in Go.
That kinda failed, then I switched to plain HTML until I realised it was very cumbersome if I wanted many pages. 
That's when I found [HUGO](https://gohugo.io)! HUGO is an awesome static site generator, and you're looking at a product of HUGO right now.
Oh, and also, I had problems with Vultr so I switched to Linode. And I've been a very happy customer since then!

I figured, if I want to become a random guy on the internet, I have to follow the path of other random guys on the internet.
Because of that, I tried to make my website as small as possible without hurting the look of the website and added it to [512kb.club](https://512kb.club)!
Also, on [LandChad.net](https://landchad.net) I found many tutorials to do cool stuff on the server. What you're looking at is not just a website,
it's a whole ecosystem of mine! And I love it.