Over the last ~14 months I've been rebuilding my site as a blog. Previously it was a portfolio website on Drupal. These have been the things I've aimed for. -

Over the last ~14 months I've been rebuilding my site as a blog. Previously it was a portfolio website on Drupal. These have been the things I've aimed for. - Quick load times. - Flexible hosting options - Something that is not a constant attack target like Wordpress/Joomla/Drupal that I need to keep patching. If I don't have time to work on my side project, this is going to fall by the wayside. It's very frustrating to return and find spam everywhere or get notifications about it. - Plenty of theme and plugin support. - Code highlighting - Something where I can have audience feedback. Similar to the Likes/Reactions that Disqus offers. Currently using Commento which doesn't offer that. So far I've been using and quite liking Github Pages which is based on Jekyll. I've got a staging site setup on Amazon S3 which loads incredibly quick since it's all static files. Github hosted main site loads almost as quick. My main gripe is it's somewhat frustrating/fiddly when trying to embed lots of images as the workflow for this is manual. I've heard Hugo is good. My ideal platform that I would look for next time looks like: - CMS content management and creation like Wordpress - Static site generated output which: - is Easy to host anywhere - Incurs zero time waiting for DB queries/server operations - Plenty of plugins and themes available - Easy integration of third party hosted comment section edit: sorry, learning formatting on HN still.