Why I'm moving my clients to static blogging engines (opens in new tab)

I know... Is there a server? Are there user accounts? Is there something generating the static pages? Then there's something to hack.

Seriously - there's always some attack vector. I got notified a few months ago that an old static blog on one of my personal sites that I had totally forgotten about was hacked (bad permissions + some feedback form).

Most web hosts have some form of caching available to customers so the concurrency argument doesn't hold up well either.

Compromise the S3 bucket that holds my site, then.

It's also about optimization.

It's the Fixie bike of the internet - so if you're not a coding hipster don't worry about it.

ask the spam accounts. i'm sure they'll be happy to fill you in... [it's serving static - pre-rendered html - web pages. like blogging with github or bitbucket, for example.]

[at time of posting half of comments were new accounts with content-less "wow" comments. [or people who don't know how to edit posts. haha.] if that's cynical i'm a pink giraffe.]

Basically, instead of hosting a database on your server and using php to generate the pages on every request, like Wordpress does, you just create a text file for every page, and precompile your entire site into raw html files, so that it's really fast because there is no processing on the server.

"static blogging" is what people did before wordpress, drupal, et al existed...

For me it's out of necessity.

This is the third thing I tried to buy in the last few weeks, where my card was declined. All three were using Stripe to process payments.

The sellers all tell me they can't get any detailed errors from Stripe, and I should just check with my bank or try another card.

This is why I often choose Paypal when offered the choice. No bullshit errors about my card being declined or my address not being just right.

Why can't I make a buyer account at Stripe already?

I'll give you my credit card and address info once, I don't have to type all that again, you can verify me once and be done with it. You don't have to provide any wallet services, just let me give me damn money to all these businesses relying on you.

We can take Paypal. Send us your contact info in the Contact form on http://statiq.io

we've had a couple of requests. working on it.

The reason static followers are so few is because it sucks, but so does Wordpres. Statiq is going to actually make static blogging accessible to people

Yeah, the original title was different. But it's because I'd never heard of static blogging and it didn't have any good themes.