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I'm in the process of moving away from a static site for my website. Simply put, a web interface is often more convenient so I can update things easier on the

by motter 13y ago

I'm in the process of moving away from a static site for my website. Simply put, a web interface is often more convenient so I can update things easier on the go, and it's good to have a place to host experiments too. I have used various static site generators but none of them seemed to be significantly less work to get going than a small django app on heroku. Though I've been using Django for a few years, so there is simply no learning curve left.

untog 13y ago
Wait till your web site gets a ton of unexpected traffic.
- StavrosK 13y ago
  What'll happen then? My Django-based blog handled hundreds of thousands of visits in a day without breaking a sweat. What it does is basically "fetch the whole page from memcached and serve it".
- riffraff 13y ago
  Having a dynamic "admin panel" does not mean you can't completely cache your user-facing pages.
  - oneeyedpigeon 13y ago
    And having HTML files on the filesystem doesn't mean you can't have an admin panel to update them with.
    - pekk 13y ago
      Do you have a Django plugin you'd like to suggest that does this?
      - sondr3 13y ago
        Maybe something like Prose.io (Jekyll based). It gives you a very rudimentary interface to edit your posts for a static site.
- deleted 13y ago
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StavrosK 13y ago
I had the same problem (updating content), so I wrote a small script to download deltas from my Dropbox and parse them. Now I can edit my posts with vim: http://www.stavros.io/posts/this-blog-is-dropbox-enabled/ http://www.stavros.io/posts/this-blog-is-dropbox-enabled/
- motter 13y ago
  That's a nice solution, though I've gone for a markdown admin widget instead. This one if I remember correctly: https://github.com/timmyomahony/django-pagedown https://github.com/timmyomahony/django-pagedown
  - StavrosK 13y ago
    Oooh, very nice, thanks for that! One unintended (and great) side-effect of a Dropbox-hosted site is that you get mirrors for free (they all update together).

by motter 13y ago

untog 13y ago

Wait till your web site gets a ton of unexpected traffic.

StavrosK 13y ago
What'll happen then? My Django-based blog handled hundreds of thousands of visits in a day without breaking a sweat. What it does is basically "fetch the whole page from memcached and serve it".
riffraff 13y ago
Having a dynamic "admin panel" does not mean you can't completely cache your user-facing pages.
- oneeyedpigeon 13y ago
  And having HTML files on the filesystem doesn't mean you can't have an admin panel to update them with.
  - pekk 13y ago
    Do you have a Django plugin you'd like to suggest that does this?
    - sondr3 13y ago
      Maybe something like Prose.io (Jekyll based). It gives you a very rudimentary interface to edit your posts for a static site.
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StavrosK 13y ago

I had the same problem (updating content), so I wrote a small script to download deltas from my Dropbox and parse them. Now I can edit my posts with vim: http://www.stavros.io/posts/this-blog-is-dropbox-enabled/ http://www.stavros.io/posts/this-blog-is-dropbox-enabled/

motter 13y ago
That's a nice solution, though I've gone for a markdown admin widget instead. This one if I remember correctly: https://github.com/timmyomahony/django-pagedown https://github.com/timmyomahony/django-pagedown
- StavrosK 13y ago
  Oooh, very nice, thanks for that! One unintended (and great) side-effect of a Dropbox-hosted site is that you get mirrors for free (they all update together).