A New Home: blog.primax.cloud

What?

If you have visited my blog before, you may have noticed the URL has changed.

My blog has officially moved from hoangnph-it.github.io/blog to blog.primax.cloud. 🎉

It's a small change on the surface, but it means a lot to me personally. This post is a short celebration of that milestone and a quick look at what changed behind the scenes.

Why?

There are a few reasons I decided to make the move.

It's more professional: A custom domain is cleaner and easier to remember. blog.primax.cloud is something I'm proud to share, compared to a GitHub subdomain with a /blog suffix.
It's mine: Owning the domain means I'm not tied to any platform. If I ever move off GitHub Pages tomorrow, the URL stays the same — only the server behind it changes.
Google AdSense: I recently applied for Google AdSense to monetize the blog. Having a real custom domain gives the site more credibility during the review process.
Part of a bigger vision: The primax.cloud domain is something I've been building around. The blog is the first piece of it, but it won't be the last.

How?

The migration involved a few technical steps across the codebase and DNS settings.

On the code side, the main changes were:

Removed basePath: "/blog" from next.config.js — the new domain serves from root, so no subdirectory prefix is needed anymore.
Updated siteUrl in siteMetadata.js
Fixed hardcoded /blog/static/favicons/... paths in the layout files.
Fixed the Image component which was manually prepending /blog to every image source.
Added a CNAME file to the public/ folder with the new value.

On the DNS side, I added a simple CNAME record at my DNS provider.

What's next?

Moving to a custom domain is just the beginning. Here is what I have in mind:

Keep writing consistently — at least one post per month.
Continue growing topics around Cloud, AI, and Engineering practices.
Explore moving from GitHub Pages to a self-hosted server for more control.
Hopefully get approved by Google AdSense soon. 🤞

Conclusion

It's a small step technically, but it feels like a big step personally. Having your own corner of the internet — with your own domain — is something every engineer should experience at least once.

If you are reading this, thank you for being part of this journey. Whether you stumbled upon this post through a search engine or followed me from the old URL, I hope the content here continues to be useful and worth your time.

See you at blog.primax.cloud — the new home. 🏠

P/S: Shoutout to GitHub Pages for the free ride all this time. You were a great starting point. 🙏✨