Website moved to Astro

Because…

I like a challenge and learn new things 🤷
I like how fast static websites are 🏎️
To get rid of the monthly CMS/Hosting fees for the sites I host, hopefully in the near future including the 4 CRO.CAFE podcast sites 🤞

After playing around with different systems, I decided to move my website from Webflow to Astro.

Came across Astro some months ago and since then we also built the CommerceQuest website with it (alongside the Vanilla forum) and I really like it.

It’s a static website generator. In general, that has some benefits over more database driven websites, e.g.:
- Speed: Faster loading and response times due to pre-built pages.
- Reliability: More stable with fewer potential points of failure.
- Security: Reduced vulnerabilities without databases or server-side processing.
- Hosting: Easy to deploy and scale, handles high traffic well.
- Maintenance: Simpler updates, typically just editing HTML or Mardkown files.
- Cost: More economical to develop and host due to lower resource needs.
Astro resizes and compresses images automatically based on what the page requires;
Their islands concept makes so much sense (static by default, interactive where needed);
Great documentation;
Active community;
Fully Git based, so good history and rollback options;
I learn a ton, and - despite not being a developer - I like working with code and figuring out new technologies, which is even easier nowadays with tools like GitHub CoPilot and Claude.

Stack

I’m basing the new system on Astro, Tailwind, Keystatic and Netlify.