badrihippo Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 Has anyone tried hosting a Grav site on HelioHost? I'm wondering what the performance/resource usage is like. Right now (or rather, when Tommy is back up) I'm using Wordpress, but that seems to be pretty resource-hungry (as people never fail to point out). What I need is a lightweight CMS that still supports plugins, multiple authors, and non-technical interfaces for them to work with. If Grav is light enough, it would probably fit the bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sn1F3rt Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 If you need uptime and fast loading time, don't go for Grav as well. It's similar to WordPress. I've used Grav previously and quit it eventually due to high downtime. I would suggest you using Joomla if you need a good CMS with better performance. However, it's always good if you can code things yourself (ie, use HTML/CSS). Having said this, I would also like to mention that I'm on Johnny. Maybe Tommy can handle Grav better. Who knows? You may give it a shot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bailey Posted August 21, 2019 Share Posted August 21, 2019 There's always the option to use something like Hugo (gohugo.io) or Jekyll (jekyllrb.com) that allow you to code your website while offering lots of useful functions such as being able to easily import plugins etc. It then allows you to build your website via a command an outputs a folder full of CSS/JS/HTML which you can then upload. This also means it loads quicker and there is way less load on your account. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badrihippo Posted August 23, 2019 Author Share Posted August 23, 2019 Maybe I should be more specific. I don't mind coding, but the website is going to have other collaborators who are not necessarily tech-minded. So I'll need some kind of interface to create/edit/manage posts and pages, and possibly handle things like "scheduling" articles. I would suggest you using Joomla if you need a good CMS with better performance. However, it's always good if you can code things yourself (ie, use HTML/CSS). I'll give Joomla a look—I don't know why, but for some reason I've never got round to trying it out There's always the option to use something like Hugo (gohugo.io) or Jekyll (jekyllrb.com) that allow you to code your website while offering lots of useful functions such as being able to easily import plugins etc. It then allows you to build your website via a command an outputs a folder full of CSS/JS/HTML which you can then upload. This also means it loads quicker and there is way less load on your account. Won't work now, but thanks anyway. They could come in useful in the future. (There's also Pelican which is interesting because it's in Python). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbbdude Posted August 27, 2019 Share Posted August 27, 2019 I've been having performance issues with Joomla on Ricky (understandable given its state) so I thought I'd experiment with Grav, as well as other static CMSes like WonderCMS. Unfortunately, it seems Ricky's PHP isn't working at the moment. Jekyll requires Ruby, so it won't work on Ricky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pooks Posted August 28, 2019 Share Posted August 28, 2019 I've been having performance issues with Joomla on Ricky (understandable given its state) so I thought I'd experiment with Grav, as well as other static CMSes like WonderCMS. Unfortunately, it seems Ricky's PHP isn't working at the moment. Jekyll requires Ruby, so it won't work on Ricky. Ricky doesn't have Ruby? What are RubyGems then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sn1F3rt Posted August 28, 2019 Share Posted August 28, 2019 @jenova: Rubygems is sort of the hosting manager for the programming language Ruby. It allows you to publish your website coded in Ruby. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbbdude Posted August 28, 2019 Share Posted August 28, 2019 Evidently I was mistaken... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badrihippo Posted September 1, 2019 Author Share Posted September 1, 2019 Jekyll requires Ruby, so it won't work on Ricky. What if you generate the site on your own (local) system, then just upload the generated files via FTP? Then you won't have to run anything on the server at all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolstech Posted September 2, 2019 Share Posted September 2, 2019 All of our servers have Ruby. It's Rails that you're probably thinking of. We no longer support Rails. I don't know whether Jekyll would run on Ricky, but badrihippo's idea of designing and generating the site on your PC and uploading the resulting files would work just fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badrihippo Posted September 29, 2019 Author Share Posted September 29, 2019 I finally ended up using Ghost on Heroku for the live portion of my site. It connects to HelioHost for the database (and also image hosting, via WebDAV, once I set that up). The final site is compiled into static files using Gatsby pulling content from Ghost—it's running on Netlify but theoretically could be uploaded to HelioHost too, since it's just static files. This is the way I found a balance between not using too much Helio resources, and still making use of the options other free sites don't offer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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