[bobfunk]

If you're not super keen on spending time on this yourself and don't want to give up any convenience of a fully dynamic site, that's part of what we built Webpop (http://www.webpop.com) for...

Of course tweaking web servers and playing with your stack can be fun, but if you just want to build your site and let someone else handle the back-end performance and scaling issues, then there are solutions for that.