Ask HN: When should I use static website?

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I am trying to build a website showing the available cars for rent. Should I build a static or dynamic website?

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As usual, there are many obvious question (and some less obvious ones):

- How often do you change the available cars?

- Is there a registration for something? (newsletter apart, can your users save a car for later?)

- who will do the actual modifications? How easy for this person to change what (s)he has to change?

- From where do you perform the modifications?

do the simplest solution for you(probably static), then expand it if you want
If you need the website up fast, and don't have much experience with dynamic websites, I would go for a simple static website to begin with and then expand it over time.

Personally, I like to go with dynamic websites most of the time. I have templates to help me get going fast and if I ever need to implement some dynamic functionality I can just extend the existing implementation.