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Static sites are overrated for most cases. Often you still need a backend for editing with non-technical folks or just easier handling of media, etc so you're now running a server-side instance of some blog or CMS while adding a whole new detached frontend layer.

With things like Cloud Run that can run a container on-demand for every request, it's easier to just stick with regular Wordpress or Ghost server-side stacks.




> Cloud Run that can run a container on-demand for every request

People will bounce back. It will take far too long to load. The point of a static site on a CDN is speed. If your goal is to get outside visitors, then you definitely do not want to do this.

I can understand Cloud Run for demoing small apps though.


Cloud Run just pauses the CPU, the container is still fully loaded and resumes very quickly. You can also cache the pages with a CDN.


> Static sites are overrated for most cases. Often you still need a backend for editing with non-technical folks or just easier handling of media, etc so you're now running a server-side instance of some blog or CMS while adding a whole new detached frontend layer.

Not for my blog.


most sites.

If you're editing markdown files with only text and running a simple convert to html then it'll work fine, but ghost/WP in a container would work just as well.




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