After some trial and error, my website is now live.
This website is built on Hugo, using PaperMod theme, deployed on Netlify and connected to my Namecheap domain.
The source code is checked into the following repository -
https://github.com/rch-git/alinuxuser
I am going to try to consolidate all the blog posts I wrote over the years. I started blogging as a way to improve my writing. Back in the day I started a blog with Blogger and Windows Live Writer on Windows XP. It was perfect. I could write content offline, which was very important because internet connectivity was not good. I loved Blogger, and I started a couple of blogs over the years, and my main blog was on GameSpot. I quit updating my blog on GameSpot in 2011, and only updated my other blogs occasionally. Google had other plans for Blogger. There were no meaningful updates in a very long time. It is extremely dormant - and it might go offline at some point.
I looked for alternatives. Wordpress was a little too heavy for my liking. I did not need all those features. I wanted something simple where I could write the content locally, and push an update easily.
This current setup satisfies all my needs. I can write my content locally, and check it into the dev branch, and when I am ready, I can easily deploy it.
I will be slowly migrating content from other blogs, setting the dates as accurately as possible and making very minor edits.