[syntern]

+1, paying 99/month for the first non-free layer of contentful is defintely not cheap, and the free tier won't get you too far.

Ideally what I'd like to see for a small team is to run a $5 digital ocean instance that does at least a mediocre job of managing assets in a database and triggering the static export of the site. Unfortunately I haven't found anything that a non-savvy user would consider as useful. Any idea for that (or alternative for contentful)?

[Khao]

This discussion got me thinking and I started working on a side project to do exactly that. Let me know if you'd like to be notified when it's ready for beta. My e-mail is in my profile if you're interested