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HTMLy: Databaseless Blogging Platform (Flat-File Blog)

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Re: HTMLy: Databaseless Blogging Platform (Flat-File Blog)

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Post by danpros »

deckiedan wrote: post #5
hayksaakian wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure makes sense. I asked because I always see post about Jekyll and octopress, and such. That are basically server-less.

Yep - and there's also some benefits performance and security wise to not having any serverside code at all (other than nginx, or whatever). The problems you have with jekyll, pelican, et al is that you lose site-side search, 'related posts' (without some reasonably complex compile-side clobber), etc. etc. Using extremely minimal PHP lets you deploy just as easily, you don't get too much of a performance hit (a hell…

HTMLy has a built-in search feature and related posts. I use file-naming convention than the speed always fast even though let say the blog has about 3k of posts with hundreds of tags, why? HTMLy don't read the content first but filter it first. I already test it with mini VPS (RAM 128 MB) and no speed penalty.

Re: HTMLy: Databaseless Blogging Platform (Flat-File Blog)

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Post by meritt »

vesinisa wrote: post #7
deckiedan wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep - and there's also some benefits performance and security wise to not having any serverside code at all (other than nginx, or whatever). The problems you have with jekyll, pelican, et al is that you lose site-side search, 'related posts' (without some reasonably complex compile-side clobber), etc. etc. Using extremely minimal PHP lets you deploy just as easily, you don't get too much of a performance hit (a hell…

> It's only awful when used to build anything massivly complex (such as joomla! or drupal...) Or a Bitcoin exchange

If only Mark Karpeles had simply written mtgox in another language, there's no way he would have lost 750,000 bitcoins.

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Post by codygman »

noonespecial wrote: post #6
hayksaakian wrote: post #2

Don't take this the wrong way, but why PHP?

Outside of "the bubble" the web is basically made of php and perl. Its like the dark matter of the internet. If you want to reach all they way down to the weekend dabbler, you really need to choose one of those 2, and of those 2, php seems more immediately accessible.

Sadly the web is made up of a lot of php code. Luckily this graph lets me sleep better at night:

http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=php&l=&relative=1

Re: HTMLy: Databaseless Blogging Platform (Flat-File Blog)

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Post by imdsm »

hayksaakian wrote: post #2

Don't take this the wrong way, but why PHP?

Interesting choice. A lot of places still use it, but it definitely feels dirty. Not the kind of thing you usually see around here. While it is still used a lot, I have to say, when I saw PHP I immediately closed GitHub.
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