[JD557]

I might be wrong, but I believe that 4chan does something similar to this: Every time a post is made, the board is updated and new static pages are generated. All the server does then is serve this static pages.

(I can't find any official reference to this though, but another user has referenced this some time ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8060200)

[Reedx]

That's also how the most popular guestbooks and forums in the 90s worked. e.g., WWWBoard, which seemed to be used almost everywhere for quite a while. A perl script would generate a new HTML file and update the index HTML for each post.

[robinhouston]

The only trouble was they didn’t do it atomically, so if two people posted at the same time everything would get horribly mangled.

There was a reason we moved to database-backed sites.

[tjoff]

I surely hope that wasn't the reason.