Ruby on Rails

Hassan: Citation?

How about DHH himself?: "The reason you shouldn't use Rails is that the community is full of experienced, senior developers who might have families and therefore are EXPENSIVE." https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1034481397430251521

Don't get me wrong, Rails is a pleasure to work with...there are just a bunch of cheap, cost effective options that rails simply can't compete with (and that's OK). Take the Glitch.com link above, they give you a lot for free and people host microservices like forum bots there all the time (plus it's made by the StackOverflow team).

Joe: what kind of websites were you developing 16 years ago? where did you connect using a dial up modem? 56k?

I remember back when I switched to a faster dial-up number (my down was half a kilobit), but then the phone company charged me for long distance.

Stefan: And I have to say one thing: Nothing, and I mean NOTHING could separate me from the Ruby and Rails community EVER again.

I am right there with you, I have even convinced a few nodejs people to give rails a chance. But Jack's original question included: "…web site requiring a CMS and a 'blog and little to nothing in the way of custom tables?". Let's not kid ourselves, Rails is not the best tool for the uninitiated to make static sites. Hence why I linked Gatsby, Jekyll, Squarespace and Wordpress. If there was the need for custom DB work or if Jack didn't mind the learning curve, it would be Rails all the way.