I never use SSR, and you shouldn't either

The author argues that developers should avoid server-side rendering (SSR) and host static sites for free, citing his own side projects that reportedly serve 80,000,000 users and handle 10,000,000 requests per minute without hosting costs. He says static sites can use built-in CDN delivery and DDoS protection on free GitHub and Cloudflare hosting, and recommends a frontend starter he says keeps bundles under 20kb, plus a $4/month DigitalOcean VPS with Easypanel for backends. He also contends that Google has run JavaScript for crawling since 2015, that Prerender can handle OpenGraph metadata, and that SSR is unscalable because platforms like Vercel can ban or go down under heavy traffic.