Why Should You use Hugo right now?
There are multiple reasons why you should already be using Hugo, including;
Security: as Hugo has a completely static output, you don’t have to worry about keeping your website up to date with the latest security patches.
Cost: Another advantage of using a static site generator is that your website will take up far fewer resources, as such most people will be able to host their website on a really cheap hosting or VPS plan, even with a relatively popular website.
Easy scalability: When your website is just made up of files rather than a database, you are able to easily to scale your website across multiple services or even host it completely on a CDN. Hosting your website on a CDN which includes some kind of “object storage” can be a really good a way of having high availability but this can cost a lot more than just normal hosting or a VPS that costs a couple of dollars per year.
Easy migration: migrating a WordPress install can be a pain in the ass, this is because you have to deal with exporting and reimporting a database which can be time-consuming and sometimes does not work properly. With a Hugo website, you only have to move some files which is extremely easy.
How will people switching to Hugo be fantastic for the internet as a whole?
At the moment with so many people using WordPress, the software has become a massive target for hackers which is bad news for other websites as a hacked website can be used to launch a range of attacks on other more secure websites.
The types of attacks that can be launched from a compromised WordPress install, can range from something as minor as comment spam to something as major as a DDOS attack.
With Hugo generating a static output, it does not have all of the security problems of WordPress, this means that if bloggers switched to Hugo the internet would have a lot less compromised which will make the internet better for every webmaster.
But isn't Hugo really hard to use?
Hugo is not that hard to use once you have seen a few tutorials, this might put some people off from using Hugo but what you got to remember is that ease of use does come with some pretty big downsides as I stated earlier in this article.
What about comments?
This is probably the biggest downside of having a static website, but there are hosted comment systems you can use such as; Disqus. The problem is that you will be handing control of your comment section to a central company. If you do decide to use Disqus for your blog, please always keep a backup.
Conclusion:
I hope this article has convinced you to use Hugo for your next blog. Anyway, I plan on making more articles in the future surrounding the subject of static websites, this will hopefully help people to have an easy to maintain website which means they can spend more time making content. The main thing you need to know is that sometimes the easiest to use piece of software is not the best software to use.