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the "wordpress" button on your old-school $5/mo hosting's CPanel is right there my dude right there at any time you could have hit that button and spent a whi

the "wordpress" button on your old-school $5/mo hosting's CPanel is right there my dude right there at any time you could have hit that button and spent a while poking around its immense collection of default themes and installed the "I do not like the block site editor, please give me the old editor" plugin and had a big, empty text box just begging for you to fill it with words, all the time you spent faffing about with jekyll and hugo and ghost and your custom style looking for the absolutely perfect version of the the same black text on white ground style that a zillion templates have been made of could have been spent writing blog posts instead but I guess you gained some experience fooling around with the technologies underlying Hugo and Jekyll and maybe that was surprisingly useful in other parts of your life, and maybe that was better in the long run? anyway, good luck putting words in that big blank text box you have finally perfected.

rcpt 3y ago
What's cpanel?
- ipaddr 3y ago
  One click Admin page for your server. Install a library of programs, setup email accounts, landing pages, 404,etc. stats
  - justusthane 3y ago
    Just to add, it’s included with most shared hosting providers.
  - vachina 3y ago
    > One click Admin page Understatement of the year. cPanel feels janky but it works, and works very well. OP could’ve one clicked a Wordpress installation and hammered away with the default theme (which is quite readable already). My $20 DNS hosting comes with cPanel and I never had to lift a finger on sysadmin.
    - gexla 3y ago
      And Wordpress can do automatic updates.
      - Jnr 3y ago
        I have been using Wordpress auto updates for many years now, works great. Once in a while I have to also `docker compose pull` to update the PHP version (~once a year?) Hosting up to date Wordpress instance requires no effort. And Wordpress has a really nice editor.
  - gadders 3y ago
    They stuck their prices up massively in 2019. Put me off having a fun blog. Still not EUR400/year though.
    - deleted 3y ago
      [deleted]
- oliyoung 3y ago
  didn't know a hackernews comment could make me feel old with two words
  - topato 3y ago
    Why? Shared/managed hosting solutions (read: not a VPS) are almost universally running cPanel, Plesk, or Webmin. I guess it was more well known in the days before AWS, when that was how almost all webhosting ran lol
nyanpasu64 3y ago
I bounced off the WordPress ecosystem. Most of the themes are targeted towards commercial websites including web shops, rather than blogs, and charge money to buy or unlock features (while making a token effort towards GPL compliance). The Gutenberg editor was dreadfully buggy, IIRC I still prefer a more semantic/Markdown-style editor (like writing blog posts in Obsidian) over the presentational HTML Wordpress classic editor, and converting posts between the two types was a disaster. And static HTML export was tricky to get working as well.
- egypturnash 3y ago
  you don't need static html export, you just need a cache plugin gutenberg sucks though

rcpt 3y ago

What's cpanel?

ipaddr 3y ago
One click Admin page for your server. Install a library of programs, setup email accounts, landing pages, 404,etc. stats
- justusthane 3y ago
  Just to add, it’s included with most shared hosting providers.
- vachina 3y ago
  > One click Admin page Understatement of the year. cPanel feels janky but it works, and works very well. OP could’ve one clicked a Wordpress installation and hammered away with the default theme (which is quite readable already). My $20 DNS hosting comes with cPanel and I never had to lift a finger on sysadmin.
  - gexla 3y ago
    And Wordpress can do automatic updates.
    - Jnr 3y ago
      I have been using Wordpress auto updates for many years now, works great. Once in a while I have to also `docker compose pull` to update the PHP version (~once a year?) Hosting up to date Wordpress instance requires no effort. And Wordpress has a really nice editor.
- gadders 3y ago
  They stuck their prices up massively in 2019. Put me off having a fun blog. Still not EUR400/year though.
  - deleted 3y ago
    [deleted]
oliyoung 3y ago
didn't know a hackernews comment could make me feel old with two words
- topato 3y ago
  Why? Shared/managed hosting solutions (read: not a VPS) are almost universally running cPanel, Plesk, or Webmin. I guess it was more well known in the days before AWS, when that was how almost all webhosting ran lol

nyanpasu64 3y ago

I bounced off the WordPress ecosystem. Most of the themes are targeted towards commercial websites including web shops, rather than blogs, and charge money to buy or unlock features (while making a token effort towards GPL compliance). The Gutenberg editor was dreadfully buggy, IIRC I still prefer a more semantic/Markdown-style editor (like writing blog posts in Obsidian) over the presentational HTML Wordpress classic editor, and converting posts between the two types was a disaster. And static HTML export was tricky to get working as well.

egypturnash 3y ago
you don't need static html export, you just need a cache plugin gutenberg sucks though