The only server involved is the one that runs the compile process. Once the site is built, we push it to S3, and your site is up… Nothing else is needed to view it.
Seriously - there's always some attack vector. I got notified a few months ago that an old static blog on one of my personal sites that I had totally forgotten about was hacked (bad permissions + some feedback form).
Most web hosts have some form of caching available to customers so the concurrency argument doesn't hold up well either.
Switching over to a static blog was a ton of fun. I was a bit intimidated, but once I started rolling it wasn't any harder to set up than Wordpress.
The hardest part when I got started was getting a good theme. I wanted to do some tinkering, or buy a theme from a good source. There wasn't anything I liked.
Are you serious? Are you stuck in 1997? Have you ever heard of wp-supercache or wp-totalcache? Or even setting up an nginx server with built in cache? C'mon dude. Static followers are so few and they're just hard core people. Stop wasting your time.
The reason static followers are so few is because it sucks, but so does Wordpres. Statiq is going to actually make static blogging accessible to people
There's nothing about why you're moving your clients to static blogging engines, except maybe because you're trying to sell themes to them. I'd downvote this, if my karma was sufficient to render the downvote.
ask the spam accounts. i'm sure they'll be happy to fill you in... [it's serving static - pre-rendered html - web pages. like blogging with github or bitbucket, for example.]
[at time of posting half of comments were new accounts with content-less "wow" comments. [or people who don't know how to edit posts. haha.] if that's cynical i'm a pink giraffe.]
Basically, instead of hosting a database on your server and using php to generate the pages on every request, like Wordpress does, you just create a text file for every page, and precompile your entire site into raw html files, so that it's really fast because there is no processing on the server.
This is the third thing I tried to buy in the last few weeks, where my card was declined. All three were using Stripe to process payments.
The sellers all tell me they can't get any detailed errors from Stripe, and I should just check with my bank or try another card.
This is why I often choose Paypal when offered the choice. No bullshit errors about my card being declined or my address not being just right.
Why can't I make a buyer account at Stripe already?
I'll give you my credit card and address info once, I don't have to type all that again, you can verify me once and be done with it. You don't have to provide any wallet services, just let me give me damn money to all these businesses relying on you.
I hate the fact that Stripe doesn't offer a gateway mode, with buyer accounts, etc. I'd feel a lot safer entering my financial info on Stripe.com than on a random site that happens to say it's powered by Stripe.
Please. Seriously statiq.io wants prospective clients to believe this is their view on "hacking sites"?