Re:Static Site Generators
by wldlyinaccurate on Thursday May 15, 2014 @08:10AM
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Usually that can be achieved with a cache like Varnish. One of the biggest benefits of static site generators is that the only software you need on your server is a web server. As soon as you want to start adding things like search and comments, you lose that benefit.
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You can use third party tools for both search (e.g. google site search) and comments (e.g. discus). Of course, if you want to customize things further with user-supplied content, at some point you'll need a dynamic backend.
I hacked up a simple commenting system for my static site, modelled after disqus but far less featureful:
http://github.com/skx/e-comments/
As used on http://tweaked.io/