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Discussion on: Static Site Generators are not for me! My Experience with Jekyll, Hugo and NetlifyCMS

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ZG

I just made Gatsby + contentfulCMS. First of all I have been tried Drupal, WordPress a long time ago. Comparing to WordPress and Drupal using Contentful and Gatsby setup with netlify static hosting gone smoothly. Plus using free plan relatively to all of them was cost effective.

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Aashir Khan

That's why I also tried Static Sites

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ZG

Setup CMS on host server, plus customization is too much work for company portfolio or such. There is database + backend language + frontend and caching etc,... Aside from that, static web site generator does it's job pretty well, also there is nothing to lose for some hacker, because it's static html pages. And server cost and much more staffs. Based on using netlify with gatsby and contentful combo makes those painful things easier. You just implemented a new feature, commit, push voila, its deployed. You added new blog post from contentful, voila it's on your website and it's static. No such connection to database.