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I wonder how hard it would be to convince folks to drop their expensive setups in favor of nearly $0 static sites, as well as how much up front cost they'd be w

I wonder how hard it would be to convince folks to drop their expensive setups in favor of nearly $0 static sites, as well as how much up front cost they'd be willing to shovel out for the transition. S3 + CDN (+ Lambdas optionally) feels really ready to me for almost any straightforward "website." For most things GitHub/Lab pages is an easy path to that.

frozenport 10y ago
A lot of folks who have static websites aren't technical and invested thousands of dollars for a WP website. If their site already runs, you wouldn't be providing anything.
- nine_k 10y ago
  ...unless they have to pay noticeable money for WP hosting due to serious load, or were bitten by security problems. A free business idea: write a converter from WP to Jekyll (or Hugo) that converts 95% of a typical WP site right, sell total conversion services, maybe reselling hosting, too.
  - davidbanham 10y ago
    https://github.com/davidbanham/wp-to-wintersmith https://github.com/davidbanham/wp-to-wintersmith Here's one I wrote a few years ago to go from Wordpress to Wintersmith. The Wordpress export format is pretty gross, though.
  - jlgaddis 10y ago
    I have several WordPress sites (mostly "abandoned"/no longer updated) that I would love to convert to static sites. I would happily pay a decent sum for a tool that could completely handle that conversion/migration.
    - F_r_k 10y ago
      Can't you just dump the website using wget ?
      - davidak 10y ago
        You can also use this but havn't testet it. wget -N --recursive --page-requisites --html-extension --convert-links https://example.com/ https://example.com/
      - nine_k 10y ago
        The idea is to keep the site inside a CMS, but a different CMS, one that generates (most) pages statically rather than on-the-fly.
    - davidak 10y ago
      I used https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/simply-static/ https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/simply-static/ to convert a WP site with 10.000 pages. Took about 60 minutes so i had to increase PHPs max_execution_time. I also tested some other plugins before but most don't worked for me. I had to turn off HTTPS for the generation time and reportet it as a bug to the developers. I also converted another WP blog to Markdown and used it with a static site generator. My new site is not online yet, but here is the source of an article aout it: https://github.com/davidak/davidak.de/blob/master/pages/wordpress-artikel-nach-markdown-und-restructuredtext-konvertieren.rst https://github.com/davidak/davidak.de/blob/master/pages/word...

frozenport 10y ago

A lot of folks who have static websites aren't technical and invested thousands of dollars for a WP website. If their site already runs, you wouldn't be providing anything.

nine_k 10y ago
...unless they have to pay noticeable money for WP hosting due to serious load, or were bitten by security problems. A free business idea: write a converter from WP to Jekyll (or Hugo) that converts 95% of a typical WP site right, sell total conversion services, maybe reselling hosting, too.
- davidbanham 10y ago
  https://github.com/davidbanham/wp-to-wintersmith https://github.com/davidbanham/wp-to-wintersmith Here's one I wrote a few years ago to go from Wordpress to Wintersmith. The Wordpress export format is pretty gross, though.
- jlgaddis 10y ago
  I have several WordPress sites (mostly "abandoned"/no longer updated) that I would love to convert to static sites. I would happily pay a decent sum for a tool that could completely handle that conversion/migration.
  - F_r_k 10y ago
    Can't you just dump the website using wget ?
    - davidak 10y ago
      You can also use this but havn't testet it. wget -N --recursive --page-requisites --html-extension --convert-links https://example.com/ https://example.com/
    - nine_k 10y ago
      The idea is to keep the site inside a CMS, but a different CMS, one that generates (most) pages statically rather than on-the-fly.
  - davidak 10y ago
    I used https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/simply-static/ https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/simply-static/ to convert a WP site with 10.000 pages. Took about 60 minutes so i had to increase PHPs max_execution_time. I also tested some other plugins before but most don't worked for me. I had to turn off HTTPS for the generation time and reportet it as a bug to the developers. I also converted another WP blog to Markdown and used it with a static site generator. My new site is not online yet, but here is the source of an article aout it: https://github.com/davidak/davidak.de/blob/master/pages/wordpress-artikel-nach-markdown-und-restructuredtext-konvertieren.rst https://github.com/davidak/davidak.de/blob/master/pages/word...