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How much traffic can a pre-rendered Next.js site handle?


How much traffic can a self-hosted Next.js site handle? I ran load tests, uncovered surprising limits, and compared pre-rendering with SSR.

I care about (y)our privacy and I don't want Cloudflare sitting between my visitors and my site, logging every request and potentially tracking users across the web. There is probably a better VPS for the same or less money, but I don't want to spend time researching providers, figuring out if they're operated from the EU, and then paying just to test their servers. To give SSR the best possible shot, I'll focus purely on what happens when rendering a React page with some synchronous logic on the server- with no additional API or database interactions.

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