Usually, creating a website requires a huge time investment. You have to plan for the financial cost of developing, maintaining, and hosting it. If you’re developing it yourself, you need to have significant technical knowledge. This often discourages a lot of people from building them. However, not all websites require some complicated architecture or costly resources to run. Sites like blogs, portfolios, company websites, magazines, documentation sites, etc. can be made cheaply and fairly hassle-free using static site generators.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://strapi.io/blog/guide-to-using-hugo-site-generator