Comment by nicbou

4 days ago

A single-binary static site generator would be my approach now. You can trust it to run in a few years.

I wrote my own SSG because I operate a website for a living and had specific needs. Prior to that I ran Craft CMS on the professional website and Wordpress on the personal one.

The benefit of SSGs is that the technical effort is tied to publishing. Once it’s online it stays online. You have both the human-readable source content and the static site. With traditional CMS there is a constant effort required to keep the website running. My dockerized Craft website wouldn’t start on the first few tries after a year offline.

SSGs are fantastic for building long-lasting websites with a low maintenance burden.