Question

I’ve fooled with many blogging platforms, and develop in Ruby right now…I’m tired of dealing with databases and upgrading applications–so for my personal blog, I’d like to stick with pure html.

Is this a bad idea?

The only dilemma is if I have a lot of entries…

If you were to do something like this (given that you answered ‘no’ to the previous question), how would you go about formatting it and how would you deal with many entries?

Answer 1

Have you looked at static blogging platforms like Jekyll?

See minitech’s answer, static HTML is good for all the reasons he lists, and also:

• improved performance! Servers serve static files REALLY fast, and to well under load
• reliability. There’s very little to break besides your Apache or nginx.