If there is anything viaweb has taught me, nothing beats performance like static html pages. Can you publish static html files and simply have an ajax componen

If there is anything viaweb has taught me, nothing beats performance like static html pages. Can you publish static html files and simply have an ajax component for the commenting and any other dynamic stuff handled by node.js? Just throwing that idea out there. Criticisms? Yeah, I know he is just looking to get his existing setup stable, and he shouldn't change it.