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For static sites hosting on AWS S3 is super cheap, plus with Cloudfront CDN in front you can be sure your site is being delivered to the user by a server near h

• jlgaddis 9y ago
  At some point, I'm going to convert my web site (a neglected blog) to a static site. When I do, I'll likely go the S3 + Cloudfront route and retire the aging physical server it's running on. I've looked into this a couple of times in the past and that's the method I kept coming up with. I really want to do it but I've had trouble motivating myself to redo the hundreds of blog posts currently in WordPress.
  • knight17 9y ago
    You can try using an exporter to see how much more work you'll have to do to make the new static version work to your liking. https://gohugo.io/tools/migrations/#wordpress https://gohugo.io/tools/migrations/#wordpress https://import.jekyllrb.com/docs/wordpress/ https://import.jekyllrb.com/docs/wordpress/
  • m3adow 9y ago
    There are plugins for Wordpress which export sites as static sites. I personally used SimplyStatic [1] with success for a rather simple blog, but it seems development has ceased. While writing this comment I also found WP Static [2], perhaps one of those two works for you. [1]: https://wordpress.org/plugins/simply-static/ https://wordpress.org/plugins/simply-static/ [2]: https://wordpress.org/plugins/static-html-output-plugin/ https://wordpress.org/plugins/static-html-output-plugin/