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Re:Nanoc: a Ruby site compiler that generates static HTML by Legion on Friday December 25, 2009 @08:30PM (#1015579)
That is the part I'm not understanding. What does using one of these "static site compilers" save me from?

I guess being able to use layouts that get "baked" into each of the final static HTML files would be handy.

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Re:Nanoc: a Ruby site compiler that generates static HTML by brianm on Friday December 25, 2009 @10:03PM (#1015653)
Mostly it takes you from thinking 50 requests per second is pretty good to being annoyed that you are only pushing 10,000 per second. It also tends to fail a whole lot less.
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Re:Nanoc: a Ruby site compiler that generates static HTML by compay on Saturday December 26, 2009 @08:32AM (#1015942)
And hosting it for free at Github.
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Re:Nanoc: a Ruby site compiler that generates static HTML by hazexp on Friday December 25, 2009 @09:25PM (#1015628)
It also drastically lowers the amount of processing overhead per page served, after all, there's no dynamic code to process nor are there any database queries to execute.
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Re:Nanoc: a Ruby site compiler that generates static HTML by swombat on Friday December 25, 2009 @08:38PM (#1015584)
I guess being able to use layouts that get "baked" into each of the final static HTML files would be handy.

They all do that.

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