Each solution has it's own set compromises.

  1. Wordpress and similar: easy to create content but requires metric asstons or resources and is a trainwreck as far as security is concerned.
  2. Static files: requires almost no resources to serve but not easy to create and share content with.
  3. Static file generation things (Jekyll, Octopress, etc): improves upon static files somewhat, making things like themes and templates easier, but it's still difficult to share content with.
  4. Hosted solutions: They're all varying degrees of roach motel. In other words, easy to get content in, not so easy to get content out in a useful format that can be imported into some other solution.

My requirements are simple:

  1. Content from said system must be managed and served requiring a minimum of resources. In other words, no more than what it took to put a man on the moon in the 1960s.
  2. I should be able to create content from anywhere on any device easily with minimum to no friction.
  3. I should be able to export my content at any time in a useful format that can be served on an Apache/nginx server, S3 bucket, or similar (see point #1).

Myguess is: I'm asking for too much. :P