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I'm currently switching a few websites to Hetzner's shared hosting. It's cheap, and I'm planning on setting up a VPS there soon so it seemed useful to put things under one account. It also comes with unlimited email accounts, so I can stop doing weird clumsy things with Fastmail.
So far, everything's sort of making sense and working. But by golly the control panels (plural) are pretty odd! One's called konsoleH and one's called Console (and there are others). There are links that take you to essential settings, but they don't look like links or buttons and you just have to know to click them. And depending on which page you're on, some settings in the sidebar are visible and some are not. For example, which of 'Subdomains' or 'Mailboxes' here do you think is a link (because only one of them is):
Anyway, I didn't actually want to moan about the control panel UI today! That might be frustrating, but is not something I use on a daily basis once I've got things set up. The main thing I'm feeling now is joy.
Because this sort of shared hosting takes me right back to when I was building PHP websites in Canberra in about 2003. When things were much the same as they are today (ha, you thought I was going to say they were simpler?!). All you need is a PHP web server and a MySQL database and a thing to send emails and somewhere to store lots of images. Probably the only real difference in the last twenty years is the addition of SSL certificates, and that's just a few clicks now thanks to LetsEncrypt.
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