How we built a 1% website in 3 days for €7

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WordPress.com

I have a hate/love relationship to WordPress. For non-technical people, it's an amazing tool. However, for a software developer having spent 25 years working with web related technologies it's like attaching an open parachute to a racing car. The markup it generates is far from optimal, performs like $%^&, and adding Elementor only increases the damage. WordPress, especially in combination with Elementor, becomes a "tag soup from hell". The same is true to some extent with more or less all CMS systems out there. Yet again, if you're not a software developer, use WordPress - It's an amazing no-code and low-code tool if you need a web presence. For us though, it's simply not "relevant", so we chose to build our website entirely on top of Magic Cloud and Hyperlambda.

#Web Hosting #CMS #Hosting 1013 social mentions

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UpCloud

Plus finally, €7 per month on servers from UpCloud - Simply an amazing cloud provider I've worked with for years.

#VPS #VPS Hosting #Cloud Computing 6 social mentions

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Jekyll

The blog parts of our site is similar to Jekyll, implying blogs are simply Markdown files, except the resolver transforming the Markdown into HTML is (pun!) Hyperlambda and not Jekyll. If you don't like Hyperlambda, Jekyll is an amazing alternative.

#CMS #Blogging #Blogging Platform 182 social mentions

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Bootstrap

We did not start out with a template at all. In fact, the website is manually designed from the bottom and up, and the only "framework" we're using here is Bootstrap. Besides from bootstrap, every single line of code, CSS, and HTML is manually written, for the most parts in vanilla JavaScript may I add. All animations are pure CSS animations, yet again manually written, and even the contact form's HTTP post request was manually created using JavaScript's fetch function. I've included it for references below if you're interested in the details.

#Developer Tools #Design Tools #Web Frameworks 329 social mentions

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Elementor

I have a hate/love relationship to WordPress. For non-technical people, it's an amazing tool. However, for a software developer having spent 25 years working with web related technologies it's like attaching an open parachute to a racing car. The markup it generates is far from optimal, performs like $%^&, and adding Elementor only increases the damage. WordPress, especially in combination with Elementor, becomes a "tag soup from hell". The same is true to some extent with more or less all CMS systems out there. Yet again, if you're not a software developer, use WordPress - It's an amazing no-code and low-code tool if you need a web presence. For us though, it's simply not "relevant", so we chose to build our website entirely on top of Magic Cloud and Hyperlambda.

#Website Design #Website Builder #CMS 61 social mentions

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CloudFlare

Still the site loads on my iPhone without WiFi on 5G in less than 3 seconds. Let us know how it loads on your phone in the comments. Without reCAPTCHA and Google Tag Manager it would have loaded in 0.5 seconds. Finally we registered a CloudFlare account, allowing us to significantly improve page loading by having an amazing CDN offering. We're still in the free version, so we don't have edge caching of documents - But in a week or two we'll probably have implemented this too.

#CDN #Cloud Computing #Content Distribution 96 social mentions