This website is powered by Wordpress. I have found that with a little bit of patience, it can serve most of your needs. As Zeldman said, it thinks like a writer. I am using a slightly modified version of the Simplr theme by Scott Wallick, and have decided to limit the blog page to one post in order to reduce clutter.
Of all of the plugins available, I am using the following to keep things in order:
For statistics, I use the trusty an pleasant Mint and am testing the Wordprss.com Stats package.
I use MySQL for my database backend, and am happily running Debian Etch for the operating system. The ‘hardware’ is actually a VPS provided by Linode. I can’t recommend them enough, and am using them both personally and professionally.
All data is backed up nightly and pushed to Amazon S3. Mistakes are easy to make.