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The confounding factor here, I suspect, is the explosive growth in the sheer number of blogspam websites. Passive income coaches have been pumping out courses o
by koboll 6y ago
The confounding factor here, I suspect, is the explosive growth in the sheer number of blogspam websites. Passive income coaches have been pumping out courses on affiliate link blogs for years now, so lots of people have dozens or hundreds of them, and that noise likely drowns out the signal of people putting more thought into choosing a framework for a site they actually care about.
- monkin 6y agoWordPress is a pain in the ass when doing that kind of thing now. It is way better to use HUGO/Jekyll generators with CI/CD and Netlify/Cloudflare. You can automate almost every portion of an affiliation website and forget about it. That's the ultimate goal of those websites, be self-sufficient and passive earners.
- ibdf 6y agoThe thing is... every shared hosting service has a one click WP install.
- monkin 6y agoThis doesn’t change anything in what I wrote. Even with one click install. :-)
- tcgv 6y agoI use Jekyll + GitHub Pages for my personal tech blog. Posts are written in plain 'md' files that once pushed to the remote repo trigger the generation of final HTML pages. I love the simplicity, and that I don't have to worry about hosting. Not to mention that is completely free.
- ihaveajob 6y agoSame reason why I set up my blog with Hugo + CloudFront. That, and to learn something new. It's neat to run your build-and-push command, and see everything deployed in a moment. Blazing fast, and you only pay for the DNS.
- johnchristopher 6y agoI find it weird (it's even borderline disingenuous) how there are so many people on HN claiming it's easier to set up a jekyll/hugo/pelican installation sending compiled HTML/CSS/JS rendered from a local folders full of markdown files through github via webhooks and orchestrating that stack from the command line than running a wix/wordpress/blogger/whatever. Especially when we are so vocal about data lock-in on every github submissions.
- _wldu 6y agoI sort of agree with this. I run hugo locally and have a simple bash script that generates the html, removes the remote public html files (via ssh) and scps the new html files to the web server. Kind of old school, and causes about a minute of downtime when I make a change, but it works for me.
- bamboleo 6y agoYou can’t be serious. Jekyll blogs are pure text files you can download and view in a thousand ways. Good luck extracting sensible data from WordPress’ database without losing metadata. Which one has the worst lock-in? The former certainly isn’t locked to anything. GitHub Pages with Jekyll don’t even need an explicit build step.
- johnchristopher 6y agoAre you serious yourself ? On second reading you sound like satire and irony. Anyway, I forgot to add git to the list of tools needed. It's really easier once you throw git into the whole thing. > Good luck extracting sensible data from WordPress’ database without losing metadata. What ? You know you can do SQL queries, right ? And if you can set up the whole bang for jekyll/git you certainly can do SQL queries. And use the WP rest API. And the internal WP query API. You are more likely to lose integrity of your metadata stored in a yaml header in md files because of a typo at some points. How do you even start to lose metadata when WordPress enforces consistency and validation on every article saves ? But forget about all that, that's software dev stuff. WP comes with built-in to sort and look at metadata and posts. > Which one has the worst lock-in? The former certainly isn’t locked to anything. Now you are trolling. You know full well I am refering to storing files in github. Which is owned by the good old and trusty evil MS. Not saying it's not easy to move things (you don't send your files only to gihub, right ?) but tying yourself to github is a worst lock-in than your own mysql database. > GitHub Pages with Jekyll don’t even need an explicit build step. That just doesn't make any sense. There are way more steps before you can even type 'git push' and then hit a browser URL https://pages.github.com/ https://pages.github.com/ And that's just for the setup of the whole thing. It's always gonna be faster to move around widgets and widgets content to cusomize sidebars and footers in WordPress than diving into jekyll templates. And this is from a guy who spent the afternoon setting up strapi on a VPS and is getting into gatsby because it looks fun.
- ac29 6y agoUsing Wordpress requires writing zero code. Thats the advantage.
- marc_io 6y agoYou can use something like Publii for this exact thing (creating a static site with affiliate links). No code involved.
- ohashi 6y agoThey actively try to not include the type of sites you're talking about.
- koboll 6y agoWhere are you seeing that?
- marc_io 6y agohttps://w3techs.com/technologies https://w3techs.com/technologies “We include only the top 10 million websites (top 1 million before June 2013) in the statistics in order to limit the impact of domain spammers”. So, affiliate sites with shallow content – and probably low traffic – aren't included.
- monkin 6y agoMost of my affiliate websites are below 150k place in Alexa, so I could bet there’s plenty of them in those stats.