I built a decently large static content site with a dynamic backend (http://yareallyarchive.com http://yareallyarchive.com) on django. With aggressive caching

I built a decently large static content site with a dynamic backend (http://yareallyarchive.com http://yareallyarchive.com) on django. With aggressive caching of all static pages it is fast as hell, and I love the django ecosystem. Adding search was as easy as dropping in django-haystack and adding like 5 lines of code. django-mptt has been brilliant for easily querying and manipulating comment trees. It's possible to do small sites with django but it requires you to learn a lot of stuff you don't necessarily need. Flask is a better choice for small/nearly-static sites if you're not already familiar with a web framework.