I host my blog at Amazon S3, not only it takes away the worry of high traffic, it almost cost nothing (I paid $1 last month for 8GB of transfers). I wrote about

I host my blog at Amazon S3, not only it takes away the worry of high traffic, it almost cost nothing (I paid $1 last month for 8GB of transfers). I wrote about the setup sometime back - http://laktek.com/2011/11/17/why-and-how-i-revamped-my-blog http://laktek.com/2011/11/17/why-and-how-i-revamped-my-blog While Jekyll is a nice fit for creating and maintaining a blog, it's an overkill for running other kinds of static sites. I felt there's a need for a simple and more flexible static site generator, so I wrote Punch (http://github.com/laktek/punch http://github.com/laktek/punch). These days, I'm working on a Punch based extension to generate blogs as well, which solves couple of pains I have with Jekyll (such as slow generation, non-existent error handling, lack of support for partials and rigidness in templating, etc.)