> Perhaps my understanding of the term "static site" is awry; My understanding of it is that it's a site that serves simple HTML pages, so it's quick since the

> Perhaps my understanding of the term "static site" is awry; My understanding of it is that it's a site that serves simple HTML pages, so it's quick since the server doesn't need to build it at each pageload (most pages basically don't change, yet there's something running on the server that builds it every single time a visitor comes to look at it, which is a massive waste) But those HTML pages absolutely are "built" (once!) by some process. A static site could also be serving HTML pages that someone crafted by hand but then there wouldn't be anything dynamic like data from a DB involved (because that requires a server and a layer that queries the DB and prepares it for display).