Bludit VS Grav

If you don't mind PHP, Bludit CMS is pretty light and easy. Uses a flat file database. https://www.bludit.com/

https://www.bludit.com/ is a good replacement with a web admin GUI and static pages.

You could try Bludit, it's a lightweight flat file CMS. I've built multiple sites with it. https://www.bludit.com/

BoidCMS has similar features to Bludit CMS. How does BoidCMS compare to Bludit CMS?

You can make a tutorial using https://www.bludit.com/ too

I use https://www.bludit.com/ for my self hosted blog. https://pilab.dev

Check out https://www.bludit.com/

I took a more traditional approach, focusing on something that's "good enough", which in my case was a cheap VPS and an install of Grav: https://getgrav.org/

Some optional customization for page templates/fonts/CSS, some CI so I can build and deploy it inside of a Docker container, Matomo for analytics that respect privacy (which I already use elsewhere) and some additional web server configuration to hide anything interesting behind an additional login and I'm good. Maybe backups and uptime monitoring if I'm feeling brave, which is what most sites should also have (so copy + paste there).

All of that for under 100 euros per year (could also pay half of that if I didn't host anything else on the server), the blog has actually survived getting on the front page of HN once or twice and requires relatively little maintenance, at least a bit less than a proper install of WordPress, due to its larger surface area.

The best thing is that it's simple enough for me to understand how it works, to be able to move it anywhere as needed and use more or less plain Markdown for writing the blog posts. Here's a quick example of a recent post: https://blog.kronis.dev/articles/ever-wanted-to-read-thousan...

Now all that's left is to find motivation to write more, but at least 90% of my time doesn't go into tinkering with custom fancy solutions, no matter how much I'd love that. Then again, nothing wrong with the alternatives either: 400 euros might be perfectly worth it for some, whereas working with static site generators or even custom CMSes would be a fun experience for others!

Also, there is a CMS called Grav. Both Gravity and Grav use a very similar (but not identical) font for their logo.

As an alternative to a static site with Hugo you can use grav for dynamic sites. Can't use it with GitHub pages, of course, but it does allow you to add searches and such to your site, while still writing your content in markdown files.

If not, then it's grav cms which is more than enough for you.

Another area of CMS Systems are Flat File System based CMS which I did last time not hear a lot around but there was a lot of noice in the past from Kirby CMS and Grav CMS. Instead of a database they store all there data inside files and I mostly saw more for simpler website build with it where not specific security releated user context based content where used.

I would recommend Grav or Kirby (if your site is less than 50 pages) or Craft if your site is larger than that. Craft is especially nice. I has an incredibly powerful developer experience and an incredibly refined editor experience. Those 2 don't often go together. Grav and Kirby are nice in that they give you all the nice features of a CMS, but don't require a database, so they're trivially easy to stand up almost anywhere.