[manuelmoreale]

I'm going to add my personal take on this issue since I'm currently running a blog that's markdown-ish powered.

In my opinion the best solution is to find some sort of happy medium. Static site generators are excellent in terms of weight and speed but a lightweight file based CMS can be almost as fast while still providing the needed flexibility.

My site currently runs on Kirby (https://getkirby.com) but I write almost everything on iA both on my Mac while I'm at home and on my phone while I'm outside.

Updating the site is not as simple as typing a command on a terminal but it's just a few clicks on a very simple and minimal UI.

Images are hosted on my server like the rest of the content. It's a simply DO snippet with no fancy configuration.

If you want to go down a more automated solution, iA comes with support for micropub so you could in theory set it up so that you can upload a new post without leaving the iA interface.

But imo it's a lot of extra backend setup that needs to be monitored to save very little time in the long run so for me it's personally not worth it.