I did with mine too in 2021. Mine was 1000+ articles with even more comments. Luckily for me, I’ve already closed the comments. So, had to just throw them away. For the search, I tried Algolia but hit the limit. I’m with https://pagefind.app for now.

I wrote about my journey from WordPress to Jekyll at https://brajeshwar.com/2021/brajeshwar.com-2021/