Many newbies struggle with blogging as a good hosting provider charges anywhere between $9-35 per month to host your wordpress website. And wordpress websites are king of slow. They load a ton of features which you won't need for blogging. And it is more resource heavy.

That's why I have switched to Jekyll. Jekyll is a static site generator. And it uses markdown. Its very fast because it just generates static sites. My blog scores 100 in Google Pagespeed, 100 in Pingdom tools & 99 in GTMetrix. There are tons of themes out there for jekyll but I chose a paid one. I didn't purchase it, I downloaded the entire theme demo (3-4 MB) and edited it and added liquid syntax to make it jekyll compatible theme.

If you are wondering, here is the theme dem.....


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