Disqus is an example of a popular (though hosted and closed-sourced) javascript-only comments solution. Though again, commenting is likely much less frequent t

Disqus is an example of a popular (though hosted and closed-sourced) javascript-only comments solution. Though again, commenting is likely much less frequent than reading, so you could simply regenerate your static content (probably only a single comments page) every time a comment is submitted. Jekyll seems popular these days for generating static websites. The last blog I wrote was generated with a shell script; roughly: for i in posts/*.orig; do cat head.htm $i comments/$i tail.htm > `basename $i .orig`; done This scales amazingly well and requires nothing more than bash and a static web server.