Well, I was not going to run a site via WordPress because of all the potential “security” issues. So I went and dug a little deeper. I did some research upon my behalf to find out what a better option would be. Now a few things to mention here: needs to be self hosted, an easy way to blog, can run the business if needed on it, NO HTML or CSS on my end, and simply just really easy to do any customization. Now I am not new to coding by any means so I started to look around for other CMS’s (Central Management System) because that seems like the best fit for me.
Here is what I found out Joomla and Drupal have plenty of Vulnerabilities according to many CVEs and really doesn’t seem like a better option than WordPress if I am going towards “speed and security”. So I found out about Hugo and was very impressed. a TLDR is Hugo is REALLY FAST. This is due to the way it was programmed and also because the nature of static site generators. I have never really experienced working with a static site generator so I took it up for a challenge.
I learned how Hugo worked, how to generate sites, work with themes, and even created a not production ready website. As I went around learning this for about a week or so I understand why people love the technology. one thing always came clear for me is that for my needs it took WAY too long to edit my sites. Also it just seemed a little too tedious for a blog that I might be updating once a week. Although I can say it was really fast and I do like the idea of it only if I had more time I’d really work with it.