[throwawayboise]

Yeah, none of that may matter for a "brochure" type of website, or a blog where you are the only person updating it.

As soon as you start processing forms and doing anything transactional based on that, you'll be quickly reinventing a lot of wheels if you aren't using a DBMS of some sort.

[JumpCrisscross]

> none of that may matter for a "brochure" type of website, or a blog where you are the only person updating it

Doesn't Hacker News run on flat files?

[randombits0]

But only the wheels you need, when you need them. Don’t carry the overhead unless needed.