Blog+website. Anyone who has switched from the WordPress ecosystem to a static site generator some time ago, please share your experience.
Per the title, I'd be grateful to hear from people who made a switch and have a substantial experience with both ecosystems. How do they compare in
running costs; maintenance; security; ease of use; extendibility...
Inside IH bowels I found this comment from @amyhoy (a person behind Stacking the Bricks), posted on this thread 4 years ago:
TL;DR version of the initial question/problem:
WordPress => an older stack for blog and website building;
Static Site Generator => a newer stack type:
how do they compare, in the mind of a maker who tried them both, in all key points?
We are testing a simple cloud blog
Thanks. Are you testing both technologies?
SSG takes more of an effort to set up. We look for ease to get going. This is in a Python public page. This is our test of the cloud blog. In another project in Rails we built our own Blog using AWS s3 as the CMS. The template page called the file from the CMS, in a TXT format, then parsed the HTML within. It was much simpler than wordpress. With less features, but enough. However in our new Python project we wanted a simpler set up. (quickblog.co)
We switched to Hugo (https://gohugo.io/), hosted from Github in Netlify as we're a bunch of developers who wanted to have simplicity and better control. The current theme is simple but for now it's good and we just love the simplicity of publishing new post.
https://blog.aurinko.io/
Thanks. Looking clean and fresh.
I found using a SSG for my things extremely useless and overly complex. I just used a plugin WP2Static & Oxygen builder and it was as easy as that. Making $300/mo and I haven't touched it for months.
I'm using the cheapest DO droplet with run cloud with 4 other sites and I haven't got an alert of high capacity yet.
I still don't see much of a use of SSGs when you have the power of WordPress and it's ecosystem. (With exceptions of course)
Thank you. I know many who stick to battle-tested guns. Have you tried to run a SSG blog/site for commerce?
Nope! I sell digital goods which is going thru Ko-fi.
Your answer is extremely broad.
Try to pick one platform especially, for example. Or try to ask about 1 or 2 particular points.
With such a broad question like this is very difficult to help you.
Hey, thanks for participating. I am asking people who were using WordPress before and switched to SSG and thus have first-hand experience working with two platforms to share their pros and cons. I am aware that it is still quite broad but I did not want to limit the discussion to a specific case, so it can be useful to many people.
Even simpler:
WP => an old stack for blogging and websiting;
SSG => a newer stack:
how do they compare, in the mind of one maker who tried them both, in key points?