[johnny22]

> , the conversation rarely acknowledges the performance cost that comes with Server-Side Rendering (SSR)

This conversation is so old that most of the people having it already know this implictly so don't consider it even worth mentioning. I know I never do, because I started with things like php which works like that.

[com2kid]

I've met plenty of devs who have never seen php and who consider server side rendering to be magic because "Vercel takes care of it".

[johnny22]

I was just explaining why it's not brought up that often. I wasn't making a claim as to whether it should be more often.

[com2kid]

Hah! Fair enough.

I feel like the rush of developers in the last 5-8 years means a lot of history is just unknown.

People get all weird when I mention I self host all my projects for $10 a month on a machine I administer.

Half a core on a modern cheap VPS is equivalent to the massive server machines of the past!