I have been experimenting with website development and Hugo for sometime. It would be nice to see which posts are being viewed. Since this is a hobby site for me (non-commercial), I don’t want to pay for a commercial, third party service to track my website usage. I wanted to find a simple, self-hosted solution that provides basic analytic data. I am using a managed VPS that allows root access. They installed Docker for me, which is required for the Umami solution that I am using.

After switching to Hugo to create my website, I was missing a commenting system. Actually, When I was using WordPress, I never did receive very many comments. I still want to give folks the ability to leave comments. I wanted a simple, self-hosted solution that would work with my VPS. My VPS provider does not permit root access, so that was an additional restriction. My VPS does support using a “rootless” version of Docker, and I learned that Comentario supports using a Docker image.