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The server part in Octopress (and other static site generators are there just for convenience and to and see how it really works when you host the site I guess.)

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Not sure, If you don't run the server you can't see anything because often the templating is done by the server

The Octopress generates static html. No templating at server side. You can host output html to any static host like github pages.

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