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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?

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Post by SuperPaintMan »

I'm using IndExhibit [ http://www.indexhibit.org ] a PHP CMS Thing from 2006. It's unsupported now but simple and viewed well in the design community. I host it staticly by wget-spidering it when I make a change. Only takes a few seconds to update my archive anyway.

It's hacky, but the rest of my site uses AppEngine and I really don't feel like exposing a unsupported hack job of PHP to the open internet. Had a few issues that required modification to the themes, but that was the only issue ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

https://theblackbox.ca

Re: Ask HN: Most Sites Don't Use a CMS Like Wordpress – What Non-CMS Do You Use?

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Post by peller »

rcdmd wrote: post #17

Phenomic ( https://phenomic.io/ ). It's a static-site-generator built on React. Formerly, I used a homegrown solution, also built on React.

Have you looked into Gatsby by chance? It's another Webpack/React static site generator. I'd be curious how they compare.

https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby

Re: Ask HN: Most Sites Don't Use a CMS Like Wordpress – What Non-CMS Do You Use?

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Post by SuperPaintMan »

erikb wrote: post #25
sbierwagen wrote: post #8

I'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?

Security updates for instance.

>static

Interested if/how this could be exploited

Re: Ask HN: Most Sites Don't Use a CMS Like Wordpress – What Non-CMS Do You Use?

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Post by sho »

erikb wrote: post #25
sbierwagen wrote: post #8

I'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?

Security updates for instance.

Maybe it's a failure of imagination but I'm struggling to think of how a static site generator could need a security update?

Re: Ask HN: Most Sites Don't Use a CMS Like Wordpress – What Non-CMS Do You Use?

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Post by k4rtik »

microtonal wrote: post #29

I used Hakyll for some years, which is terrific. I got fed up with the long compile times, dependency problems, etc. So, I switched to Jekyll. I like it slightly less, but setting it up on new machines is a walk in the park.

If faster compile cycles are one of your primary requirements, you might like to try Hugo.

Re: Ask HN: Most Sites Don't Use a CMS Like Wordpress – What Non-CMS Do You Use?

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Post by [deleted] »

proyb2 wrote: post #26

Github to host static page because CSS Flexbox and HTML are so easy and will be well supported in 2017. I use Swift Sever Side framework for backend and Sveltejs ( https://Svelte.technology ) for front-end JavaScript to handle just about anything that jQuery could and a lot easier to run same compiled modules code on Nodejs and web browsers with Rollup. Less worry than running frameworks that will encounter bugs that…

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Re: Ask HN: Most Sites Don't Use a CMS Like Wordpress – What Non-CMS Do You Use?

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Post by hunvreus »

I switched to Jekyll about 6 years ago.

If your site has a lot of content, you'll have to use a few tricks to retain fast builds [1].

We had to build a lightweight CMS[2] for regular folks to update content, and a pro hosting alternative to GitHub pages that supports multiple branches, authentication, redirections, proxying...

We're Open Sourcing the CMS part; shoot me an email if you use Jekyll and are interested in testing it out.

[1]: https://wiredcraft.com/blog/make-jekyll-fast/

[2]: https://i.imgur.com/4rkHKhY.png

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