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Pros
Pro GitHub Pages offers free hosting with a github.io subdomain
You can host your site with great stability and Jekyll support out of the box for free by using GitHub pages.
Pro Excels at blogging
Jekyll pages are structured by posts, which makes it easier to build a blog.
Pro Customisable with data and collections
Can make sites very different from blogs but with a lot of pages by making templates using data and collections.
Pro Has a built in server
You can spin up a static server at localhost:4000 by running jekyll serve
Pro Large, active and helpful community
Thanks to it's popularity, Jekyll has a large and active community of users. This means there is plenty of learning material available for Jekyll and it's easy to find help from other users when needed.
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Cons
Con Little Windows support
Windows is not an officially supported platform and setting it up on Windows requires a lot more tinkering than Linux or OSX.
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Recommendations
Jekyll
Recommended 5 years ago
Works well, can be installed easily and used on a mac, really an alternative for wordpress if you are building more or less static pages...
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Excels at bloggingPro
Can use HTML to set up your page templates, and markdown for your blog postsPro
Has a built in serverPro
Decent documentationPro
Customisable with data and collections
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