I run my personal sites and a couple other on static site generators (mostly Jekyll) and it really works out well. The most complicated and interesting case is

I run my personal sites and a couple other on static site generators (mostly Jekyll) and it really works out well. The most complicated and interesting case is that of hackercouch.com, where we are running custom Jekyll plugins to even serve an API. Another website, recently setup for the chennai floods by a friend uses a Google Spreadsheet as a database, but is served as a static site: http://chennairains.org/ http://chennairains.org/. Its far more easy to deploy a static site, they are portable and shifting hosts is far more easier. Your database considerations are slightly less relevant since it only affects deploy speeds, and not your site performance.