Static pages are a barrier to scaling if you have a bunch of other stuff tied in with them Stuff like HTML macros, CSS, and so forth. My physical NYT copy from

Static pages are a barrier to scaling if you have a bunch of other stuff tied in with them Stuff like HTML macros, CSS, and so forth. My physical NYT copy from 1980 is fine. It was "published" this way, and it stays this way. What we're really saying is that if you want to go the static route, you can't go half-way: everything that _is_ the page gets deployed in one file. I doubt very many people who think they have static pages actually do.