It's something I've considered with both nginx and caddy because I've got the server so I may as well use it! I prefer a server over services like Netlify because I can deploy with rsync rather than git (or the web-based UI). Plus it lets me log the many 404s I get after so many site migrations, and then create 301s. Most services like Cloudflare and Netlify just swallow details like that unless you pay for upgraded analytics.
I keep it as vanilla HTML though because I like the fact that I can open any page as a standalone file with no server and almost any browser can render it. I'm not saying this won't change, but for now I'm happy without SSI.
Plus, I'm using Nova for some Panic-based nostalgia (Coda was big when I started), so I like having the code and rendered HTML side by side in Nova's preview.
I keep it as vanilla HTML though because I like the fact that I can open any page as a standalone file with no server and almost any browser can render it. I'm not saying this won't change, but for now I'm happy without SSI.
Plus, I'm using Nova for some Panic-based nostalgia (Coda was big when I started), so I like having the code and rendered HTML side by side in Nova's preview.