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1 A Static Site Generator is a piece of software that takes some input - often simple text files or markdown files - and turns them into static HTML pages that can be served by most any web server. 2 3 This has many advantages: 4 5 1. You don't have to maintain and update any server software. 6 2. The site is more efficient as it does not require special processing on each page view. 7 3. There is less risk of "bit-rot" where the server software is unmaintained and the web site becomes inaccessible - something often seen on older blogs and web pages that used a CMS that reaches [[obsolescence]]. 8 4. The web site can continue to be readable years later as long as the HTML documents are still around. 9 10 They also have some disadvantages, mostly in terms of editing and work-flows which might seem unconventional or awkward to users accustomed to more graphical or cloud-based workflows.