[SomeCallMeTim]

Dynamically generated sites are a Bad Idea when they can be trivially statically generated.

A lot of people still think using WordPress or even Rails for site generation is fine, but both are hard to scale. And if the site is small or academic, it will fall over with not too much traffic.

I wrote a rant [1] about this a couple of weeks ago. I can guarantee that my site will never have a "Database Connection Failed" error (now), because there's no database backing it.

Even better would be if I moved hosting to S3/CloudFront. Dirt cheap, and Amazon isn't going to fall over even if a site hits Reddit's front page. I might not like the bill I get at the end of the month if it really goes crazy, though.

[1] https://realmensch.org/2016/11/22/drupal-is-dead-long-live-s...