My website has been running under WordPress for a few years now, and I have been mostly happy. Every once in a while, my docker container running MariaDB would die rendering the WordPress website unusable. I needed to ssh into my cloud server and bounce the containers. A lot of hassle all for nothing.

I decided to give static content generators a try. Jekyll seems to be the most popular one, and has the added bonus of being the engine behind GitHub Pages. With the help of WordPress to Jekyll plugin I converted the old posts into markdown files. I am now hosting on GitHub itself: all my content is automagically versioned via git, site is always up, and I’m saving cash ordinarly spent on running docker containers. Win-win.

During migration I found this image extreamly helpful. It made the whole process much easier.

$ docker run -it --rm -v "$PWD":/usr/src/app -p "8000:4000" starefossen/github-pages