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have to wait seconds. Depending on my distance to our blog this might
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have to wait seconds. Depending on my distance to our blog this might
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take 1 second (Europe) or about 5 seconds (South Korea). While this
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take 1 second (Europe) or about 5 seconds (South Korea). While this
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does not sound like much, it **feels** very long.
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does not sound like much, it **feels** very long.
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While google apps (which we don't use for our blog)
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like google drive (which has other issues as well)
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take a different approach in *autosaving*, this also blocks if you
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have a weak network link.
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While it is just a few seconds, it is a huge difference between just
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being able to write in [emacs](https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/)
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(yes I was converted from vim) versus writing in a browser, waiting
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for the website to return.
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### Reducing latency
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While editing with "high" latency is a problem of the writer, latency
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while loading the result is a metric that directly affects the readers
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*feeling* about a website. If it takes too long to a website, you,
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dear reader, are about to leave this website very fast. Even if I
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write the greatest and best content, you won't like it.
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So by switching to a static CMS, the dynamic processing time is
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removed and pages can load as fast as the round trip time (RTT)
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between the web server and you.
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### Reducing the inhibition threshold for writing blog articles
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Let's come to the third and maybe most important point: reducing the
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inhibition threshold for writing blog articles. Let's put some
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background into this: we are a small, Swiss based hosting company
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loving open source. However, the emphasises is on **small**.
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So we cannot (nor do we want to ) afford huge marketing / adwork / paid
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advertisements. But our strategy is to **do good and talk about it**.
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However if the barrier for writing and publishing is high, we won't
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write much about the things we do. And I think with a static CMS,
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geeks (like me) are having a much easier time to actually write a blog
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entry.
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## How to do it
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Now let's have a look on how to sneak in a static CMS into an existing
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company website. [ungleich.ch](https://ungleich.ch) is powered
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by our [Django CMS](https://www.django-cms.org)
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based CMS (full [source code is
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online](https://code.ungleich.ch/ungleich-public/dynamicweb/)).
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The Django instance is running behind nginx, which allows us to proxy
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different parts of the website to different backends and to serve
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static assets directly from the filesystem.
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On the other hand we have a static web server named
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*staticweb.ungleich.ch* that hosts various static pages.
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The existing URLs of ungleich.ch should all stay as they are without
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any conflict. For this reason the new static cms is placed at
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**/u/**. The static pages are generated on a client machine and are
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uploaded using the following Makefile snippet:
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```
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BUILDDIR=../ungleich-staticcms-build
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DESTINATION=ungleichstatic@staticweb.ungleich.ch:/home/services/www/ungleichstatic/staticcms.ungleich.ch/www/
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all: publish
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publish: build permissions
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rsync -av $(BUILDDIR)/ $(DESTINATION)
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permissions: build
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find $(BUILDDIR) -type f -exec chmod 0644 {} \;
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find $(BUILDDIR) -type d -exec chmod 0755 {} \;
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build:
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lektor build -O $(BUILDDIR)
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```
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The last step to sneak in the CMS was to modify the nginx
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configuration of ungleich.ch with the following snippet:
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```
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location /u/ {
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proxy_pass https://staticcms.ungleich.ch;
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}
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```
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## What's next?
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As you can see in this post, the design does not fully (*cough*) fit
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the regular design of ungleich.ch. However Lektor uses jinja2, which
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is very similar to what we already use in the
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[existing dynamicweb
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project](https://code.ungleich.ch/ungleich-public/dynamicweb/).
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If you want to join the discussion about this, I invite you to our
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open chat on [chat.ungleich.ch](https://chat.ungleich.ch).
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<!doctype html>
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<!doctype html>
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<meta charset="utf-8">
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<head>
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<link rel="stylesheet" href="{{ '/u/static/style.css'|url }}">
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<!-- Google analytics -->
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<title>{% block title %}Welcome to {% endblock %} ungleich.ch</title>
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<script>
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(function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){
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(i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),
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m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)
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})(window,document,'script','https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga');
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ga('create', 'UA-62285904-1', 'auto');
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ga('send', 'pageview');
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</script>
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<!-- End Google Analytics -->
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<meta charset="utf-8">
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<link rel="stylesheet" href="{{ '/u/static/style.css'|url }}">
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<title>{% block title %}Welcome to {% endblock %} | ungleich.ch</title>
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</head>
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<body>
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<body>
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<header>
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<header>
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<h1>{{ self.title() }}</h1>
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<h1>{{ self.title() }}</h1>
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<nav>
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<ul class="nav navbar-nav">
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<ul class="nav navbar-nav">
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<li{% if this._path == '/' %} class="active"{% endif
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<li{% if this._path == '/' %} class="active"{% endif
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%}><a href="{{ '/'|url }}">Welcome</a></li>
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%}><a href="{{ '/'|url }}">ungleich.ch</a></li>
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{% for href, title in [
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{% for href, title in [
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['/u/blog', 'Blog'],
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['/u/blog', 'the new ungleich blog'],
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] %}
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] %}
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<li{% if this.is_child_of(href) %} class="active"{% endif
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<li{% if this.is_child_of(href) %} class="active"{% endif
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%}><a href="{{ href|url }}">{{ title }}</a></li>
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{% block body %}{% endblock %}
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{% block body %}{% endblock %}
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<footer>
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© Copyright 2019 by ungleich.
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© Copyright 2019 by <a href="https://ungleich.ch">ungleich</a>.
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