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A developer shares their migration from WordPress to Astro with Azure Static Web Apps, driven by three key factors: concerns about WordPress ecosystem governance and automatic updates, environmental impact (reducing 438kWh/year energy consumption by eliminating 24/7 VM hosting), and cost savings (from €481/year to free tier hosting). The static site approach eliminates idle server resources while achieving perfect Lighthouse scores and maintaining features like SSL certificates and compression without additional plugins.

Why I Switched from WordPress to Astro: Faster, Cheaper, and Greener

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“Why I Switched from WordPress to Astro” - says person with a basic 90’s blog. I mean, didn’t everyone who used Wordpress for blogging switch years ago? Wordpress is great for building an easy to use CMS for big client webpages, not for blogging, that seems rather overkill.

You know you can generate a static version of WP website, right? And upload it to free static pages hosting like Cloudflare Pages, right?
Your WP costs are so inflated, if you’ve been paying this, you just didn’t know better. The whole argument about energy saving is completely wrong.

Why are you still using WordPress?

I did the same 5 years ago, but with svelte.

Did the same, but with Nuxt! Excellent Dx, very happy with the change!