[pothibo]

I really don't see the benefits of a blog without a backend. Don't get me wrong, I used jekyll a while back and when I used it, everything was awesome.

But then I wanted to do simple stuff like editing a post from another computer that didn't have access to my server because one of my post had a typo.

Then I wanted to list all my blogs by published date and have a different place where I could list post by [type|tag].

Some of those features are available through jekyll, but seriously, what's the difference between parsing a database for post of type X and having jekyll build a list of post on XYZ requirements?

I hope you don't think that database backed blog are slow because on 128mb RAM I had over 20k unique per day on my site. Running Wordpress, without any caching.

[salehhamadeh]

Hey pothibo. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

Honestly, I chose not to go with Wordpress for 2 reasons. First is that it needs a server. Using Jekyll, I am able to leverage Github pages to serve my website for free. The second reason is that Wordpress is not easy customize (from a programmer's perspective). I tried to learn Wordpress themes but stopped after sensing how much time this would take me. Jekyll's themes were self-explanatory code, allowing me to plug my website's same CSS files and HTML template into the blogging platform. For Wordpress, I had to use PHP and learn theme functions and learn how to package the theme beforehand.

I know Wordpress has wide collection of plugins, but coders like me always prefer to write their own stuff.

[pothibo]

You seem to think that I'm rooting for Wordpress, I'm not. I just used it as everyone knows what Wordpress is. I'm currently using my own blog engine (https://github.com/pothibo/ecrire). What I wanted to say is that as soon as you need some feature for your blog, you'll end up using something that is powered by a database.

[redwall_hp]

Once the plugin API goes live, I'm probably going to migrate my blog to Ghost. It's a nice in-between.

[salehhamadeh]

Thanks for sharing Ghost. I did not know about it till now. It looks pretty neat, especially since it runs on my favorite stack: Node.js and Handlebars :)