I don't know if it's just a fad - what more is a blog backend with a cache plugin doing than generating static HTML? It's more like the universally accepted "r

I don't know if it's just a fad - what more is a blog backend with a cache plugin doing than generating static HTML? It's more like the universally accepted "right way of doing things" being taken a step further. Why should the system that generates the HTML be the same one that serves it?