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From 2013: "How I served 100k users without breaking the server- or a dollar bill." (on S3)

http://blogging.alastair.is/how-i-served-100k-users-without-...

I've been using S3 for serving so much of my web work that I can't believe it has only been 3 years since I learned how to do static page serving on S3.

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Do you use any particular framework to generate the static pages like jekyll or middleman?

Slightly OT: If you are less of a ruby guy, what are the go to frameworks in other languages? Especially when you are not looking for blog cms (e.g. pelican or hugo).

I use Middleman almost exclusively. It gives me almost the simplicity of Jekyll but with all the flexibility of writing and including Ruby whenever I feel like it (which can be bad...). I've written things that are almost akin to a small read-only Rails app except the data is stored as YAML files.

If I had to move from Ruby, I think I'd give Lektor (made by the creator of the Python Flask web framework) a deep look. Besides being a static site framework, its creator has endeavored to build a client-friendly GUI, making it a potential way to build static sites that can be maintained by laypersons. It has a very opinionated structure, which had caused me to rethink how I arrange files in my other static projects: https://www.getlektor.com/

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