[trevorturk]

Ugh. The length of that article (and the reliance on Disqus for comments) is why I'm still using WordPress.

I'd use a hosted service, but I haven't found one that can properly import my posts and comments. Is there such a thing? I know Posterous is close, but I don't think they import comments.

I still love Mint, too. I wish someone would build a hosted version of something just like it. If you're thinking the same thing and want to team up, drop me a line ;)

[corin_]

The length of the article is in part due to how in-depth he goes, and in part due to how customised he wanted it. Realistically you could get a Jekyll site setup in ~10 minutes.

As to comments, on my Jekyll blog I opted not to bother with comments, but yeah, Disqus (or equivilent) is probably the best option. A possible second option would be to tell Apache to run all the .html files through PHP, and use PHP to add in a database-driven comments system. Sure, it won't be as fast as HTML-only, but it will still cut down the load time by not using any database queries for the rest of the site.

[brianwillis]

You can get a Jekyll site running in ten minutes if you know how to use:

- Ruby gems

- Git

- Liquid Templates

- Yaml

You can get a WordPress blog running in minutes knowing a lot less.

[coliveira]

There are several reasons one may decide to use jekyll, but I think speed is the least important one. First, this is a solution for small websites and blogs. I don't see how a large scale website would be generated from static pages, anyway. Second, there are simple methods to cache wordpress content without resorting to static pages.