The return of static site generator?
2021-07-12: Work in progress…
Facing the aging technologies
I'm a maintainer of a few websites purely as a hobby and I'm facing a situation that the technologies they are based on are aging.
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Other sites are running
DokuWiki and I've been using it over eight years now
At the moment everything is working fine but It is clear that in forthcoming years something must be done because the aging technologies.
The alternatives
Some of the alternatives are
To start using a full-blown
CMS
To start using a minimal
CMS like
Grav CMS
Write something dynamic, so build my own dynamic site software
Use a static site generator software like
Jekyll or
Hugo
Write my own static site generator
The requirements
The basic requirements for the solutions are
Should have a minimum of ten years of practical painless lifetime.
Should be able to run both on Windows (workstation) and Linux (workstation, server).
I have written web content starting from 1994. This should be the last project where I need to convert the content into a new format. In future the web front end changes shouldn't require a content format conversion.
The solution should be able to handle
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and finally a static version of
catza.net after the practical lifetime of the technologies behind catza.net come to an end
SSG
Static site generators seem have made a comeback. Using a static site generator would close the circle for me since I used to use a custom static site generator written in Perl from 2004 to 2011.
to be continued