Re:Use Jekyll To Keep Your Blog From Folding Under Traffic
by ibotty on Friday October 05, 2012 @04:55AM
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"With static files all these problems go away and maybe our kids get to see what daddy wrote 30 years ago."
is this a good thing?
Re:Use Jekyll To Keep Your Blog From Folding Under Traffic
by pattern on Friday October 05, 2012 @12:39PM
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My first reading of this interpreted it as a tongue-in-cheek way of saying "Static websites are resilient enough to last for years, for better or worse!" I do agree with the premise in that most dynamic solutions will in relatively short order (~1-2 years?) show signs of their age - be it memory leaks, security breaches, or just lack of flexibility.
"Me Too Aside": A few months ago I finally started up my personal blog[1] which uses Hyde[2] (the Python brother of Jekyll) and is served via an S3 bucket. I found it extremely refreshing not to have to worry about yet another web infrastructure to maintain. It's exceedingly easy to update and maintain.
[1]: http://www.verdantrefuge.com/ [2]: https://github.com/hyde/hyde
You can't just leave Wordpress based blog to linger on your server after you have quit blogging. It will occasionally eat all your resources and every once in a while new gaping security holes are found which need to be patched. And if you decide to switch hosting provider, it's a hassle.
With static files all these problems go away and maybe our kids get to see what daddy wrote 30 years ago.