I'd imagine that generating static pages would also
reduce load on the web server, make the site faster,
and so on. The trick would be regenerating the pages
every time the DB changes (in a significant way...),
rather than once a night via cron job.
If the site's very dynamic, live updates would be the
way to go, but otherwise, I'd be afraid that they'd be a
waste of resources.
Update: There's some good discussion on high
traffic dynamic+cached sites at Opening too many files?.
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The hell with paco, vote for Erudil!
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