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Moving From Content Management Systems (CMSs) to Static Site Generators (SSGs) Saves You Time, Makes You a Lot More Productive

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 13, 2025,

updated Sep 13, 2025

Today we had some internal debate. Seeing that we've managed to produce about 120 stories in 5 days (since Monday), and even managed to prepare a 20-page Application to the Court (dealing with Microsofters [1, 2, 3] who get outside funding to SLAPP us), it's hard to deny the fact we've become a lot more productive. We now produce about 20 stories per day, compared to barely 10 before dumping WordPress, Drupal, and MediaWiki. See, we hardly have to do sysadmin tasks anymore; the external factors (like DDoS) can be mostly ignored because the cost is low with static pages being served (almost no CPU or RAM involved, mostly just the network card working). We've let our SSG do all the heavy lifting, so more time is nowadays spent with the pen, not the hammer or "ban hammer" (blocking IP addresses or mitigating some other way). We've also become a lot more focused. We're doing the backups with rsync in multiple locations and are also not (ever) watching nmon 24/7 (like we had done for 4 years prior to the belated move).

The Web has been overrun by LLM bots and all sorts of other bots in recent years*. The majority of Web traffic is unwanted, rogue, fake. Why spend a lot of computational resources serving bots? Instead, try to reduce the cost (financial and computational) of running your site. █

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• Even the chief culprit admits his culpability; (2025) Dead Internet Theory Lives: One Out of Three of You is a Bot (bloated version with trackers)