New blog? New backend!

I revived my blog. It is now powered by Hugo, a very fast static site generator based on Golang.

Why a static site?

I chose a static site generator over my old Wordpress blog because of the following reasons:

• Wordpress, its plugins and PHP need to be updated regularly.
  That’s annoying and time consuming.
• Like most other software, Wordpress and its plugins are often vulnerable to attacks.
  I don’t want to have to worry about hackers getting access to my blog.
• I prefer to write my blog posts in plain markdown, in my editor of choice.
• I don’t need the dynamic features of the PHP script language.

Benefits of a static site

Static sites can be served by a simple web server like nginx or Apache.
These webservers are battle-tested and work very well.

By serving only static files, I could reduce my stack from

• Wordpress
• Wordpress Plugins
• MySQL
• PHP
• Apache

to only a simple webserver.

This means less stuff to worry about.

Oh, and I should also mention the performance benefits of static sites.

Happy blogging!