You need a complicated hosting environment. You cannot just upload your app to a server or a CDN. You need Node.js servers doing the server-side rendering. This adds complexity and also costs more.
NextJS only does this with the next start command, it can be used with smaller serverless platforms that can reduce costs.
Correct, serverless is cheaper. Still, even a serverless platform will cost more than a CDN serving plain HTML, and even if the platform hides the complexity of doing SSR at scale, it still exists.
If you're able to use Vercel, things will work nicely out of the box. They've invested millions in having a developer-friendly platform that hides all the complexity of the underlying serverless infrastructure and tooling. 🤗
However, many companies cannot use serverless solutions. I can talk from experience that running your own Node.js servers to do SSR is not very simple. Would not do it again. 😫
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NextJS only does this with the
next startcommand, it can be used with smaller serverless platforms that can reduce costs.Correct, serverless is cheaper. Still, even a serverless platform will cost more than a CDN serving plain HTML, and even if the platform hides the complexity of doing SSR at scale, it still exists.
If you're able to use Vercel, things will work nicely out of the box. They've invested millions in having a developer-friendly platform that hides all the complexity of the underlying serverless infrastructure and tooling. 🤗
With platforms like Netlify or AWS, you'll have to do a little bit more work, but there are developer-friendly solutions like github.com/netlify/next-on-netlify and serverless.com/blog/serverless-nextjs.
However, many companies cannot use serverless solutions. I can talk from experience that running your own Node.js servers to do SSR is not very simple. Would not do it again. 😫