sun rise

Title of this post is word play on “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” title of 2004 movie I like (more…).

It is also the title of my first post on new web-platform, a little tradition of mine.

Through the years I’ve used a few of platforms, sometimes, with new site reincarnation I wrote more about reason behind change.

Hugo, static in cloud

when : 2020 - now

hosted : S3, cloud

I’ve chosen Hugo as static site generator.

I’ve decided to host it on S3, to use cheap solution and less hardware on premises.

Grav, flat file engine

when : 2018 - 2020

hosted : home server

I’ve chosen Grav after some extensive search (few months) for flat file web/blog engine. I admit it took a really long time. But I thing if I did not research this topic as I did, it would probably bother me.

Features that turned out to be important to me is easy installation and convenient admin panel ( easy update, easy backup ). In fact, it is too advanced for me, but it does not prevent me from using only a small range of functionality and be satisfied. Maybe in the future I will use it in a wider range.

If you are looking for new CMS checkout those ( some are not flat file ):

  • fork cms (db)
  • pico
  • ghost cms
  • anchor cms (db)
  • wonder cms

About Grav ( Grav documentation ) :

php site

when : ~ 2010 - 2018

hosted : regional vps service

no framework, just html / php code

other

Other, free, publicly available engines were tested