I have migrated this site from WordPress to Hugo. I love the simplicify of setting up a WordPress site and the low maintenance it requires. But, I like tinkering with the latest and greatest technologies.

Why abandoning WordPress?

  1. For my simple blogging needs, I don’t want to worry about updates and security patches
  2. For a $5/month DigitalOcean server, it runs decently fast. However, I think I can do better

Why Hugo?

  1. Among all the static site generators I have tested, it is the easiest to get started. No worrying about Node versions, no worring about installing Ruby. Just download a single binary and run hugo serve and I’m good to go
  2. It has a nice theme
  3. It’s fast. Really fast. It scores 100 on Lighthouse.

This site scores 100 on Lighthouse