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Re:Automate GitHub Pages with IFTTT, Glitch and Jekyll by paradite on Saturday November 25, 2017 @01:30AM (#15774728)
> WordPress relies on countless server- and client-side dependencies

Which you have access to the source code and ability to choose when to upgrade.

Compare that to GitHub, Glitch and IFTTT, which:

- Also have countless dependencies, but not just in the source code, in their service architecture as well

- You do not have access to source code

- Can make your blog offline when they experience service disruption

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Re:Automate GitHub Pages with IFTTT, Glitch and Jekyll by btgeekboy on Saturday November 25, 2017 @02:27AM (#15774871)
The only step in that chain that can take your blog offline for visitors is GitHub pages. The cool thing about static sites is they're really easy to replicate to a second provider. Or a 3rd, 4th, nth...
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