[TriLUG] Preview of new TriLUG website

Brian via TriLUG trilug at trilug.org
Mon Apr 9 13:30:01 EDT 2018


Tired of managing all those ancient static web pages?  Try a dynamic 
CMS!  They're all the rage!

Tired of managing your insecure dynamic CMS?  Try a static site 
generator!  They're all the rage!

/me wonders what new-old-thing is next.

(Note: This is not commentary on TriLUG in the slightest!  Just musing 
about the march of technology...)


On 04/09/2018 01:15 PM, Aaron Schrab via TriLUG wrote:
> At 13:10 -0400 09 Apr 2018, William Sutton via TriLUG
> <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>> looks good to me.  how is it security-wise compared with what we
>> currently have?
>
> The new site has a much lower attack surface than the current one does.
> Since Jekyll is a static-site generator, there is no server-side code
> for visitors to attack other than the web server (Apache) itself.
>
> The old site had a lot of PHP code, and used a MySQL database to store
> the content. All of that was more places for vulnerabilities to crop up.
>
>



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