Jekyll is great. It's what I use to run my site for the last ~4 years with about 250 posts (it's still very fast -- reloads happen in less than 3 seconds). It

Jekyll is great. It's what I use to run my site for the last ~4 years with about 250 posts (it's still very fast -- reloads happen in less than 3 seconds). It really doesn't take too much effort to use existing Jekyll features to add in custom "user features" into your site. You can go so far without needing to write your own plugins. For example, I just put out a video a few days ago that goes over using "includes" to add 3 unrelated site features (site wide affiliate link notices, a table of contents for blog posts and embedding media): https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/implementing-3-different-website-features-with-jekyll-using-includes https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/implementing-3-different-webs...