HOW MUCH TRAFFIC CAN A PRE-RENDERED NEXT.JS SITE REALLY HANDLE?

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This developer investigated the traffic capacity of his pre-rendered Next.js site and found its VPS performance surprisingly limited, handling only a few concurrent visitors effectively. Scaling the VPS led to barely any improvement, so he explored alternatives like Cloudflare (rejected due to privacy concerns) and Vercel (deemed too expensive and restrictive). Finally, he upgraded to a dedicated server, which boosted performance and now allowed the handling of thousands of requests per second.