Eleventy 2.0 just came out and I migrated this blog from Wordpress to it. I also moved the hosting from Digital Ocean to AWS.

Why did I do it?

Let me count the ways:

  • Static Site Generation fits in with my philosophy to moving more of my life towards text (vs using a blog editor UI)
  • Eleventy uses Markdown
  • There were some nice tutorials on migrating a site from Wordpress to Eleventy. Note that I opted to do some custom work to better understand the Wordpress export and have a nicer result.
  • AWS should reduce my costs
  • I'm working to master CDK and deploying this blog with it gets me more experience with it
  • Eleventy is the underdog to Gatsby, Hugo and Jekyll and I root for underdogs

I'm happy with the results. Hopefully this will reduce the friction of writing blog posts too and we'll see more content on here in the near future.