You didn't ask me, but may I suggest git and a static site generator? That's what we're doing, and we're thrilled with it.

Definitely a good idea. Blogs are inherently non-dynamic, except for the once-in-a-while article posting, for which you can have a tiny piece of public-facing software dedicated to that one small task (if you even want that). Or your software can just rsync the new version of your blog to the live server.

I've written off commenting on blogs... so while that was the reason why I made Angerwhale dynamic, I will never be tempted to make that mistake again. Blogs are static pages with an index, per-tag indexes, and a few XML feeds. No database queries should be made to show someone a blog post.

I want to start blogging, and I'm considering Jekyll + Disqus. Many people seem to use this combo to add comments to a static website. You may get the "best of both worlds": static website + dynamic comments.

There is a discussion on Jekyll (and Disqus) here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=998411

Which static site generators did you evaluate, and which did you end up choosing?

Jekyll and nanoc3. We went with nanoc3, which was the first one we were able to get working right. I have very few preferences other than "want Ruby" and "must actually work".

For one website I use rails. I made the platform in 2 days with full cache caching (http://www.freestylemind.com). For my technical blog (http://oscardelben.com) I now use nesta, but I was previously using jekyll. For my needs they works very well.