The old internet shows signs of quietly coming back

Slightly related: I may want to contribute to the cause by building a very small personal site on a broadband connection (unfiltered public dynamic IP plus DuckDns) after I solve some health problems and relocate, hopefully within a few months. If I'm lucky I should get a better connection than the roughly 60down/22up I have now, which would seem ridiculous for that use, but I'd make a strictly static site, no Javascript, small images and no or extremely small downloads (torrent might help for bigger ones, if any). I don't plan to build any community around it, just to document projects I would discuss on newsgroups and possibly here, so no user input would be involved. Anyone here who had a similar experience can share more information, caveats, suggest tools, etc? Thanks.

Apache with server side includes (SSI) will allow you to quickly and easily template websites without adding new tools or processes. I find this to be a decent balance between a static site and DRY. I don't care for most static site generators since I prefer to write my site content in HTML as much as possible.

For example, your index.html may look like:

  <!-- #include virtual="/top.html" -->
  <h1>My Website</h1>
  <p>A bunch of content</p>
  <!-- #include virtual="/bottom.html" -->

top.html could be something like:

  <html>
    <head>
      <title>My Website</title>
      <!--other header info -->
    </head>
    <body>

And for bottom.html:

      <footer>
        <!-- footer stuff -->
      </footer>
    </body>
  </html>