Blog without a database / Simple blog solution
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For those wondering why databaseless (or even better, totally static) is a good idea, here are two reasons...
Security: Unless you're a fulltime sysadmin, probably 50% of your wordpress, drupal, textpattern, (etc) installations have been bludgeoned by scripters, spambots, or whatever. Sometimes it's not a problem, sometimes it is. You won't have to worry about those hundreds of crufty old wordpress installs you've tossed at clients over the years...
Low profile: Not as big, but if you're pushing clients to a shared resource server with any sort of database limit, you don't have to worry about it. You can host on whatever has the most storage space and fast ping without worrying so much about the RAM or CPU going nuts if the blog gets hit. Of course you should still configure your server to compress and cache as necessary.
- Sorry for being a little rambly. Hyde, pelican, nanoc, etc. are all good static site generators, but for a client you might need to write a script to automatically compile their updates.ismith
- to write a script to automatically compile their updates. (very simple, but maybe some have it built in or a plugin)ismith