[mikekchar]

I'm curious about why you have a static website hosted by someone else, but then host your own comments? Is there some advantage to keeping the comments separated from the content?

[voltagex_]

Static hosting is pretty much free, then the comments can go on a cheap server.

I looked into using Discourse to do something like this, but they refuse to reduce their memory usage (2GB minimum required, I think)

[jdsin]

Exactly! I host my blog for free on github, and the comments on free account from www.pythonanywhere.com.