Hugo with Discus will do the job you're looking to complete: it's the approach I've taken with nearly all my sites these days, precisely because of the performa

Hugo with Discus will do the job you're looking to complete: it's the approach I've taken with nearly all my sites these days, precisely because of the performance and security headaches. You don't even need to run a VPS, although if you do so you can set up a nice publication pipeline with Git. But you can equally just throw the static content up on S3 or Google Cloud Storage, optionally with a CDN in front of it. You can also run your blog on Gitlab if you feel inclined: they have a CI process meaning that when you commit new source content to your git repo, it'll automatically get built and appear on your site. I found the domain support a little flaky there when I tried it, but apparently they've updated their setup since then.