Simplest Wordpress alike framework or tool?

[Cary Gordon]

Why don't you just get a server on AWS? A new "medium" instance should be plenty, and with a three-year commit, it should be under $25/Mo.

You are likely going to run into this kind of issue with your current commodity host no matter what you do.

The other alternative might be to go with a node.js-based static site generator. You can build this with Grunt.js or, if you want something already built and expandable, perhaps Harp <http://harpjs.com/> or Jeckll <http://jekyllrb.com/>.

You might want to take a look at the self-proclaimed definitive list of 240 static site generators at <http://staticsitegenerators.net/>. If you want to learn a new language (or work in a familiar one) there is something for everyone there.

Thanks,

Cary

On Apr 27, 2014, at 9:35 PM, Jorge Biquez <jbiquez at icsmx.com> wrote:

> Hello all.
> 
> I was wondering if you could share your thoughts about the following.
> 
> Let's assume The following.
> 
> That we already have a site running using Wordpress. A nice template we get with some plug ins. Banner rotating, security, edit, seo, simple ones I guess. It worked fine but with the grow of the web page we are facing a problem since the ajax in the ads (used by the plug in), the too much javascript on the page with the plug ins and the one used by the theme and with more visitors the page is getting daily ,now the site consumes, according to the isp we use, LOT of resources , more than the resources allowed by the isp on the level of account we have as a shared service. So we have to move to another level of service and use VPS virtual service or the smallest of a dedicated one. With the stats we have of the site, we can confirm the use of resources and yes, it is not normal, the iste s not hacked , everything works fine, just at times the overload is very big and that is creating the problem.
> 
> I know there are options for hosting companies specialized on Wordpress and even Wordpress itself offers VIP services. We know those services exist and we are evaluating what we could afford it. We know that we can also do load balancing maybe with some tools, or even simple dns services.
> 
> When talking about the consumption of resources with some of the collages we were talking about doing something strange maybe, and here is when I ask for your comments.
> 
> Our needs:
> 
> - Being able to update easily as with Wordpress, different levels of user, several users, restrict sections. All like Wordpress does.
> 
> - Being able to have responsive web pages that detect movile devices or desktop and adjust to different resolutions (like our theme does it under Wordpress)
> 
> that's all.
> 
> (yes we know drupal, joomla, and others could do the job also but we believe that at the end we would be finishing with the same load on the server)
> 
> So we were thinking that maybe could be possible to construct all  using a tool that give us as a result simple html pages, that emulates, the best it could , the look and feel of a  complex Wordpress site. Yes, we know that could be lot of static web pages. In fact using a tool for editing HTML we could emulate the look and feel now. Besides our page it won't change frequently on menus, sections, etc but it will grow in content.
> 
> Do you know tools that we can explore that allows to do that? In a framework or package ,open source or commercial? that acts like wordpress BUT that constructs simple and fast web pages , like plain HTML and do not abuse of Javascript , Ajax, etc and does not consume too many resources? Even that works on a lan and not online could work even when that means to FTP the changes every time. Yes, it sounds stupid maybe but we can explore possibilities. Yes, not too fancy and elegant like wordpress but with the same results using static web pages?
> 
> I know this could be solved with money , getting a cheap dedicated service for $150-350 USD per month. Or contracting shared service with a professional Wordpress service provider but issue is that this project will involve at the end several web sites of non profit institutions with very few financial resources. So if we can give them functionality like Wordpress in their old equipment and low bandwidth they could get it would be great. NO way to get extra resources , for now, since this is for institutions in Mexico and Central America.
> 
> Any comments are welcomed maybe off-line if the subject is of not interest on the list.
> 
> Thanks for the time and I am sorry for the long email.
> 
> Jorge Biquez
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