Re:Why I Don’t Host My Own Blog Anymore
by ericabiz on Thursday February 09, 2012 @04:13PM
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Yeah, until your time is so valuable that you'd rather pay your assistant and/or a copywriter to help you with it.
That's where I am with my company right now. Even with my copywriting background, my time is valuable enough that I need to hire someone to help us with website content. WordPress is easy. I can hire thousands of people to update my design or add content. Not so much with another solution that doesn't have a WYSIWYG, web-based interface for adding content.
My setup is as simple as creating a new text file with the content, using basic markdown syntax to create the post, adding it to git (totally optional), and running a brain dead script to deploy. I could probably teach my mom to post content to my blog in one 30 minute lesson.
This setup could easily scale with the org so that you have tons of people writing content for you. Let them write a post, push it to github, and have some gatekeeper in charge of posting to the site.
Have you tried using Cloud9 IDE as a means to modify the content. In the case of static site generators like Jekyll, one could just host the content files on github and use Cloud9 or a similar web-based editor to edit the content.
You can also setup post-hooks in Github such that a push will automatically re-generate the static site for you and update the site. That is how I have setup my personal blog.
That's what I do with abtinforouzandeh.com and it has been able to handle 50k+ requests over the span of a few minutes while maintaining sub-second load times.