A Starter Kit for Emergency Websites
What we did for tacticalvote.co.uk:<p>1. A static site generator, with markdown as the source input in Github<p>2. Data from Google Sheets<p>3. A bash job on a cron that would poll both for changes... if changes exist, re-publish the site or data and purge Cloudflare cache using their API<p>4. Configure Cloudflare via Page Rule to Cache Everything<p>Even with a very high change rate and hundreds of thousands of visitors a day and severe traffic spikes... the site was instantaneous to load, simple to maintain and update, and the cache purge stampede never overwhelmed the cheapest Linode serving the static files.<p>The content editors used Github as the CMS and edited Markdown, or just updated data in Google Sheets. Changes were live within 5 minutes.