Embrace the Static Web with Punch

Re:Embrace the Static Web with Punch by CJefferson on Sunday November 04, 2012 @11:53AM (#4740204)

For me, it's a way of avoiding having to trust / pay for someone else's server, but also avoid worrying about keeping my wordpress install up to date.

I had a little blog I posted to every few months, and one day I found it vandalised from my out of date wordpress.

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Re:Embrace the Static Web with Punch by paulgb on Sunday November 04, 2012 @12:54PM (#4740366)

I think this is a huge reason for the popularity of static blogs. For dynamic blog software, your choice is basically WordPress. Unfortunately, WordPress has a pretty bad security track record. Things might be different if there were a reliable second-place blogging engine, but as far as I know there isn't.

Another reason is the rise of version control for small projects, and the way static sites fit nicely into a Git workflow.

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Re:Embrace the Static Web with Punch by icebraining on Sunday November 04, 2012 @04:37PM (#4741160)

I use DotClear instead of Wordpress for the blog of a local non-profit, and it's nice, and according to them, easier to manage.

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