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And also considering that Netlify is marketed towards beginners just dipping their toes into web development as well as industry professionals, is it really a g
by nexuist 6y ago
And also considering that Netlify is marketed towards beginners just dipping their toes into web development as well as industry professionals, is it really a good idea to encourage beginners to roll their own anything in any conditions other than training exercises? We already tried this experiment with cPanel in the early 2000s; so many sites got pwned due to bad configurations and injection-prone PHP that we spawned entire industries and standards boards to deal with that problem. From a cybersecurity perspective it makes no sense to give beginners this responsibility and from a general productivity standpoint it makes no sense to ask beginners to become sysadmins + DBAs + SREs before they can get a single page up.
- nexuist 6y agoI should add, this does not mean we shouldn't encourage beginners to explore all of these fields, but it should be done in training conditions (i.e. I don't care if this gets pwned) rather than for any serious application. That way there is no risk in messing up.
- dddw 6y agoThanks for your insightfull comments, indeed running your own hosting is a special skill, which some people like to explore, and I guess quite a lot don't. Having broken cPanels around isn't a very good scenario indeed.