I have been searching for a static site generator for a while and there are lots of great ones out there but none of them were a good fit for me. Then I found Hexo.

Its small, fast, has templating and archives, supports markdown. Its awesome. One downside .. it requires node.js. In my case I’m on shared hosting so I can’t shouldn’t run node as a server because they probably won’t be too happy.

But there should be no problem just using it as a cli static site generator the only thing I need to do to make things run smoothly is to turn off multi-threading. Thankfully theres a setting for that.

So heres the steps I did to get this all setup.