Publishing Your Website from a Home PC: Cloudflare Tunnel Without a White IP

16.06.2025

There’s often a need to host a website, be it a personal blog, a test project, or a small service, directly on a home computer. This is convenient, economical, and provides full control. However, many face the problem of not having a “white” (public) IP address from their internet provider, making direct external access virtually impossible. And even if they do, it’s often dynamic, requiring constant updates via DDNS.

Don’t worry! Today, we’ll dive into the world of network technologies and show you how to overcome this limitation and publish your website online using a powerful and free tool from Cloudflare – Cloudflare Tunnel (formerly known as Argo Tunnel). You won’t need a white IP, port forwarding on your router, or other complex configurations!

004 | Building and Hosting a Website: Part 3 — Static Site Generators (Hugo) and GitHub Pages

25.05.2025

We’ve already covered website builders for a quick start and CMS platforms for maximum flexibility. Now it’s time to look at the third approach — static site generators, such as Hugo, Jekyll, and Gatsby. This method requires more technical knowledge but offers exceptional performance, security, and cost advantages.

Static Site Generators: Speed, Security, and Cost Efficiency

A static site generator is a tool that takes your content (usually written in Markdown), pre-made templates, and assets (images, styles), and compiles them into a set of plain HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files. These files are “static” — meaning they don’t need to be processed by a server on every page request like CMS platforms do. The final output can be hosted on virtually any server — including free services like GitHub Pages.

003 | Building and Hosting a Website: Part 2 — CMS Platforms (WordPress, Joomla, and Others)

24.05.2025

After reviewing website builders — a great choice for beginners — let’s move on to a more powerful and flexible solution: Content Management Systems (CMS). These are software platforms that you install on your hosting server to manage website content via a user-friendly admin panel — no need to write code for each page. The most popular examples are WordPress (the market leader), Joomla, and Drupal.

CMS Platforms: Flexibility and Full Control Over Your Website