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by com2kid 621 days ago
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".
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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.
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!