15 years ago I migrated this website to the popular CMS Drupal. At first I loved Drupal, it was a nice and shiny tool for managing my content without having to deal with designing the appearance of the site. Over the years, however, I realized that running a dynamic website also has a cost, and that cost is keeping the software that drives the site up-to-date. With Drupal that cost is substantial: Security updates are constantly pouring in, and upgrading Drupal to a major new version invariably also means a major amount of work to be done. The latest upgrade to Drupal 8 in 2018, for instance, took me about two weeks to complete!

Table Of Contents

Introduction
Choosing test candidates
Requirements
Test results
Conclusion
Update to the original article

Introduction

In September 2004, I started using phpWebSite on my site herzbube.ch. This document tells you a bit about the evaluation I did in order to find out which software I should use.