A group of us got together and put this together.<p>We decided that Wordpress sucked for us. Then we stepped into static blogging with Pelican. Then we realized that static blogging kinda sucks too. Setting it up and the dearth of themes are rough.<p>Can you give us some feedback? We're still working on this together, and would love to hear what you guys think.
I was looking for something like this the other day and found a mine-field of services which seemed like they never went anywhere. Sometimes I would like to be able to throw up a site where I can create content using something like Editorially, have automatically backed up and not have to mess with everything else involved in running a site and making sure content is backed up.<p>I was looking for something which could run Markdown files from Dropbox (and pick the folder from which they are pulled.) I would also like to be able to make posts (or even the entire site) private if needed (publishing workflow.)
So... kinda like a cross between WooThemes and jekyll (or hyde)? Seems like a pretty good idea -- especially for a large subset of business websites where <favorite CMS> is overkill.
I don't get this. As fast as static blogging is, in-memory applications:<p>1) will actually beat static files in speed<p>2) you lose none of the flexibility of databases. In fact, because your effective query impact is going to be much smaller, you gain. Not in what can theoretically be done, but in what can be done practically without impact on response time, you gain a lot. Also expressivity gains (SQL is good, but it doesn't match general programming languages) (e.g. drawing a graph of "this person replies to this person and never replies to this other person" would be feasible).<p>I suppose there's problems too:<p>3) you lose that your state is always on-disk. In other words : there's a chance that you/your developer will get it wrong, but you won't notice it until your process restarts, which can be months.<p>4) of course, you have to start monitoring memory usage in these kinds of scenarios.