On: The demise of the mildly dynamic website (2022)

[graemep]

Most of those that are find for a static site but not dynamic are those that are not fixed by just applying updates from the distro.

You still need to update your app code even if you are using someone elses servers, so its the same either way.

[pixl97 → graemep]

Note that the parent said "uptimes measured in years", so they are either using a more complex system with multiple servers, or they are not doing security updates.

[graemep → pixl97]

I agree I would not endorse uptimes measures in years, which means not doing kernel updates - but OP does qualify that with "in some cases".