Just noticed that about 57% of websites don't use a CMS like Wordpress/Drupal/etc. [1] If you don't use a CMS, what do you use exactly? I use github to host static sites, and things like Heroku for web apps.
[1]: https://w3techs.com/
Ask HN: Most Sites Don't Use a CMS Like Wordpress – What Non-CMS Do You Use?
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Re: Ask HN: Most Sites Don't Use a CMS Like Wordpress – What Non-CMS Do You Use?
#2Processwire (http://processwire.com) is the darkhorse in the CMS race. Like Wordpress, it is also PHP/MySQL based. However, the ease of use, documentation, and extensibility has really won me over.
I think the difference between Processwire and Wordpress has been in the developer experience. The former (Processwire) is better organized, direct, and addresses the most common things you would want to do in the CMS. Wordpress docs just feel like an afterthought and more of an index of things.
yeah, i'm a big fan.
Re: Ask HN: Most Sites Don't Use a CMS Like Wordpress – What Non-CMS Do You Use?
#3I generate my static website with Haunt: https://haunt.dthompson.us/
Re: Ask HN: Most Sites Don't Use a CMS Like Wordpress – What Non-CMS Do You Use?
#4Las time I used grav for something that does not have to be client friendly. It still felt a bit immature though. (the pretty flat-file markdown quickly gets gobbled up in the YAML headers and than they can only be edited through the admin interface)
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#5I'm on Jekyll.
I started out as a WordPress developer, so once I moved to more advanced programming I kept using WordPress, but it was so annoying to have to keep up with the updates that I decided to try Jekyll because of their static site nature.
Static sites are awesome because they're wicked fast, and they work in perpetuity. I'm a huge fan. If you can handle a little coding I think it's much preferable to a CMS.
Re: Ask HN: Most Sites Don't Use a CMS Like Wordpress – What Non-CMS Do You Use?
#6Just about to transition most or all of my Wordpress sites to static generate sites, probably using Hugo.
I love static sites. They load incredibly fast, they're extremely cheap to run, the security hassles go way down and, as another commenter mentioned, they work for the long-term. And these days there are plenty of solutions for reader feedback that don't require you to run a Wordpress instance.
Re: Ask HN: Most Sites Don't Use a CMS Like Wordpress – What Non-CMS Do You Use?
#7I use Strikingly https://www.strikingly.com to quickly set up personal/business sites for my friends and make some show case single page sites for my projects.
Re: Ask HN: Most Sites Don't Use a CMS Like Wordpress – What Non-CMS Do You Use?
#8I've been using Nanoblogger, a Bash-based static website generator, for about ten years. It hasn't been updated in the last four, and indeed is still hosted on SourceForge.
I could switch to something newer and better, but why bother?
Re: Ask HN: Most Sites Don't Use a CMS Like Wordpress – What Non-CMS Do You Use?
#9For my personal website, I wrote a backend in Haskell: https://github.com/myfreeweb/sweetroll after trying a lot of static generators, writing Dropbox-backed blog engines, etc.
It uses the Micropub protocol for posting/editing/deleting (I also made a frontend editor app for Micropub: https://github.com/myfreeweb/micro-panel), Webmention for talking to other websites, Git+JSON to store content.
I don't like the PHP/MySQL CMS world at all, but I use that at work. We use MODX Revolution (with some sites still on Evolution).
Re: Ask HN: Most Sites Don't Use a CMS Like Wordpress – What Non-CMS Do You Use?
#10Usually, I develop using https://harpjs.com/ because it's literally zero-configuration and does a ton (seriously, "harp server" and you get sass/less, ejs/jade/markdown and more), then compile to flat html, css and javascript.