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I guess you did your benchmark on your localhost ?

Have you tried to do the same benchmark by hosting your app on the east coast (assuming you live on the west coast) ?

For me, google.com takes about 220ms to load.

Static sites can live on S3 which means never worrying about your server crashing (except for that one time!). It's really a stress free way of handling sites :-)

I guess the question is how much does running a server that is up all the time and hosting a Django project. Static is either free or pennies to post.

And doesn't get hugged to death by HN, unlike the average wordpress installation.

If you can use a static site generator then you also have the capability to spend the minimal time having a pretty good setup like nginx with cached WordPress. In which case both would likely survive HN.

but the static site does not need to be upgraded every WP security alert.

It's nice being able to outsource all of your operations needs to S3 or Surge.sh or Netlify or GitHub or really just about any CDN on the planet.