[untog]

Wait till your web site gets a ton of unexpected traffic.

[riffraff]

Having a dynamic "admin panel" does not mean you can't completely cache your user-facing pages.

[oneeyedpigeon]

And having HTML files on the filesystem doesn't mean you can't have an admin panel to update them with.

[pekk]

Do you have a Django plugin you'd like to suggest that does this?

[sondr3]

Maybe something like Prose.io (Jekyll based). It gives you a very rudimentary interface to edit your posts for a static site.

[StavrosK]

What'll happen then? My Django-based blog handled hundreds of thousands of visits in a day without breaking a sweat. What it does is basically "fetch the whole page from memcached and serve it".