A Swiss Geek previously in Singapore, now in Portugal

Joomla

converting dynamic sites to static hosting

Why? Security and speed are the two main factors that made me migrate dynamic sites to static sites. I used to build some small sites without any framework using PHP to reuse common files (headers, footers, database connections) with some minimalistic administration pages to avoid to do vi over ssh to manage content. Security wasn’t a concern, Internet users where nice and respectful back then (or more probably I was young and naive). A badly done image upload can quickly become a hacker paradise. This little php snippet that sends out thousands of emails or worse runs brute force attacks against some powerful institutions.

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