../this-site

This very website

This is my little corner of the web. This site is built with Zola, a static site generator written in Rust. It is deployed to Netlify, which is by far the most user-friendly platform I have used. I have been a fan of static site generators and the first wave of "JAM-stack" architecture for a long time. Serving only static files makes sense in many cases, and much more often than it is done, I suspect. Unless your website contains live content or is updated multiple times per hour, static sites have great benefits:

No backend -> Reduced attack vectors
SEO with less effort
Performance
Cheap hosting, free in many cases
Content can be version-controlled in git
The site is portable and can easily be hosted anywhere

Personally, I think a lot of the SPA's and full-stack websites out there would benefit greatly if they were made with a static site generator, a CMS and an automated CICD-pipeline.