A Starter Kit for Emergency Websites
What we did for tacticalvote.co.uk:1. A static site generator, with markdown as the source input in Github2. Data from Google Sheets3. 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 API4. Configure Cloudflare via Page Rule to Cache EverythingEven 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.The content editors used Github as the CMS and edited Markdown, or just updated data in Google Sheets. Changes were live within 5 minutes.