Dogfood!

Posted on 2021-04-06 • Filed under yadayada

To have something akin to a production site (lol), I've decided to give re:Web a homepage / blog.

It will be a good place to post news and updates.

And it runs on re:Web, hence the title.

This site runs on Nicholas, "a lightweight, flat-file, easy to use & nearly-headless blogging system". This was a coincidental discovery, but it's pretty nice so far! I love simple things.

Nicholas is PHP without external dependencies (no database!), so it's an awesome fit for nginx+php powered by re:Web!

Thanks to Lambda + re:Web, this blog is blazingly fast, it would scale to BBC-levels of traffic unmodified¹, and is highly available in three different Availability Zones.

And it costs roughly... nothing!