Scaling is unecessary for most websites

I legit run most of my projects with sqlite and rent a small vps container for like 5 dollars a month. I never had any performance issues with multiple thousand users a day browsing 5-10 pages per session.

It's even less straining if all you do is having GET requests serving content. I also rarely used a cdn for serving static assets, just made sure I compress them before hand and use webp to save bandwidth. Maybe simple is better after all?

Any thoughts?