[oinksoft]

Agreed, I'm moving my small website to a bash static generator right now. But I'm not so sure about hosting comments with somebody like Disqus. Better to host and moderate them yourself, or skip them altogether.

You could do a lot worse than Redis for a blog's data store though. It's simple, fast, persistent, and easy to set up.

It's weird that the author lost his blog data from a reboot. Maybe he lost his Linode? It a bummer that he didn't have a recent backup of the redis database. Recovering a blog from Google's web cache doesn't sound like fun.

[kijin]

> Maybe he lost his Linode? It a bummer that he didn't have a recent backup of the redis database.

He was running Redis with persistence turned off by accident. In other words, he used an in-memory database.