Moving back to Eleventy

Back in 2020, I moved the makzan.net from WordPress to Eleventy and hosted on Netlify. Then I moved again to Wordpress and to Vercel. Now, I'm moving makzan.net back to the static repository powered by Eleventy.

The reason:

• Static text files are truely long term.
  • I built my first makzan.net website since 2003. But keep moving the hosting and platform means keep losing my essays and resources.
  • So, putting them into static text files hosted in a git repository is the long term way.
• Keep as independent as possible.
  • Referring to Don’t rely on a single service.
  • Using online platform means dependent to the services providers.
  • Given the recent conflicts happening in the WordPress community, it shows why keeping independent to services is a good choice.
  • There are many static sites generators and frameworks. I choose Eleventy becasue of the mininmal intervention from the site builder. I can keep a human-readable file structure for further processing in case of not using 11ty in the future.

Published on 2024-12-12 by Makzan. More articles like this:
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