May 15th, 2017
An alternative is decoupling the content management aspect from the system. And then replacing the maintenance prone server with a cloud based web service offering. Effectively, instead of your CMS of old, you move to a Content Management as a Service (CMaaS) world, with a content API to deliver all your content. That way, you get the all the benefits of content management features while still being able to embrace the static site generator mantra.
It so happens that Contentful is offering just that kind of content API. A service that
Extracted from the article CMS-functionality for static site generators. Read more about the static site generators supported by Contentful.