Jamstack is not about specific technologies. It’s a new way of building websites and apps that delivers better performance, higher security, lower cost of scaling, and a better developer experience.
Pre-rendered sites can be enhanced with JavaScript and the growing capabilities of browsers and services available via APIs.
In a nutshell, JamStack is the process of extracting content from your website as JSON or MarkDown files and then using a static site generator, like Hugo, static HTML files are generated based on your content and templates.
Why wait for pages to build on the fly when you can generate them at deploy time? When it comes to minimizing the time to first byte, nothing beats pre-built files served over a CDN.
With server-side processes abstracted into microservice APIs, surface areas for attacks are reduced. You can also leverage the domain expertise of specialist third-party services.
When your deployment amounts to a stack of files that can be served anywhere, scaling is a matter of serving those files in more places. CDNs are perfect for this, and often include scaling in all of their plans.
One of the biggest advantages of using JamStack is COST SAVINGS.
CDNs (Content Delivery Networks) have been around for a long time and have been primarily used to deliver supplemental content and multimedia files faster to clients around the globe which ultimately resulted in faster page load times.
As you can tell, when we use a CDN we essentially have a dedicated server on all continents to deliver our resources quickly to our viewers.
Imagine you could have your website hosted in every part of the globe but at a fraction of what you pay for your current dedicated hosting?
Because Omega is built from the ground up as a “headless” restful service-oriented CMS, you can utilize JamStack to quickly export all contents from your Omega installation and publish your entire site as static HTML files to all corners of the globe.
(All pricing dated 04/06/2020)
CDN:
This means that on average a website that has 100GB of static HTML content, images, videos and resources (and that is a huge website) will cost around $2-$10/mo to host!
The question left is, how much are you paying to share your content with your audience and how much money and time can OmegaCMS save you?
