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Re:HTMLy: Databaseless Blogging Platform (Flat-File Blog) by vidarh on Tuesday March 04, 2014 @04:11AM (#7339195)
A blogging platform for personal use is not magic. Avoiding things like concurrency problems in small platforms like this is often trivial.

Personally I also use a flat file blogging platform, and I explicitly rejected putting stuff in a database because I want to be able to edit the articles with emacs and check them into a git repository. Concurrency in my case is a non-issue because, well, there's only one of me.

There are plenty of scenarios where you really should not use SQLite nor any other RDBMS because it overcomplicates things that are really exceedingly simple.

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Re:HTMLy: Databaseless Blogging Platform (Flat-File Blog) by yen223 on Tuesday March 04, 2014 @05:41AM (#7339461)
If you don't want to use a database, go for one of the many static site generators. That way, you won't even need to muck around with PHP.

This project as it stands, quite frankly, looks like the worst of both worlds.

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Re:HTMLy: Databaseless Blogging Platform (Flat-File Blog) by danpros on Tuesday March 04, 2014 @08:04PM (#7344532)
> This project as it stands, quite frankly, looks like the worst of both worlds.

It's okay if you think like that, but you should try it first and then compare it with other similar solutions (i.e Ghost).

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