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At the time EC2 became popular, self-service rental of virtual machines was already a well-established business, but it was called "VPS" instead of "cloud." Up

At the time EC2 became popular, self-service rental of virtual machines was already a well-established business, but it was called "VPS" instead of "cloud." Uploading source code to your provider and letting them figure out how to serve HTTP traffic from it was also a dominant pattern, but was called "shared PHP hosting" instead of "serverless." I'm not even old. But I guess most people my age probably did not have HostGator accounts when they were 11...

bigyikes 6y ago
You have me beat, I don’t think I got my HostGator account until I was 13. Also not old. My girlfriend got a traditional CPanel hosting setup a couple of months ago. Being so caught up in my tech bubble, I kind of forgot such quaint things existed. But the more I think about it, the more I wonder why I’m bothering to write a service with JavaScript, fiddling with webpack, or deploying to Digital Ocean or Heroku or some other overpriced tech-hype VPS service, when I could instead simply drag and drop a .php file into FileZilla and get on with my day?