https://thomasbrinkman.nl/tags/static-site/Recent content in Static-Site on Thomas - A blog about information security and ITHugoenSun, 28 Nov 2021 11:00:10 +0100https://thomasbrinkman.nl/posts/my-first_post/Sun, 28 Nov 2021 11:00:10 +0100https://thomasbrinkman.nl/posts/my-first_post/<p>For my first post it feels fitting to explain a decision I made before writing a single word of content: serving this blog from a static site generator instead of a Content Management System (CMS) such as the well-known WordPress, which powers roughly 65% of all sites that use a CMS <a href="https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/content_management">at the time of writing</a>.</p> <p>A CMS like WordPress is powerful, but for a personal blog it brings along a database, a server-side runtime and a plugin ecosystem that I simply don&rsquo;t need. A static site generator takes my content, renders every page ahead of time, and hands me a folder of plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript that can be served from anywhere.</p>