OurBigBook Web vs static website publishing

static websites are cheaper to host, including many free options such as GitHub Pages.

This means that you are likely to always have several free or cheap choices of where to upload your content to, making it essentially all but TEOTWAWKI-proof

Pages will also load slightly fatser.

OurBigBook Web has killer multi-user features: OurBigBook Web topics, article upvotes and OurBigBook Web discussions

Furthermore, it also has some non multi-user features which cannot be feasibly implemented in a static website because they would require too much storage, on the fly generation is the only feasible way to deal with them:

Its main downside is that it is more expensive to host.

The OurBigBook Project will do its best to keep OurBigBook.com uploading as free as possible, but upload limits necessarily have to be more strict than those of static websites, as the underlying operating cost is larger.