> There was a time when you could just set up a WordPress site at any web host and that was good enough. You could just run your site and that was it. The Internet was fairly new, the users were enthusiastic, interested and they had time and patience. From time to time, some kids playing with scripts would DDoS your site at most, but it was a rare occurrence. Life was simple.
> Today it’s different.
(The post talks about what changed between the mid-2000s and today when it comes to running a WordPress site)
> Colleges started out as vocational schools for priests
Not really. Higher education started with Ancient Egypt's "School of Life" (surveying, mathematics, architecture, medicine etc - physical sciences) and "School of Death" (religion, philosophy etc - social sciences). Both were intended to produce graduates who would do actual jobs rather than being places of elite making connections or priests reciting religious texts.
American traffic is expensive and they scarcely do peering agreements. And the backbone providers are probably jacking up the prices to boost revenue in these inflationary times. Eu users are not affected because the Eu invested heavily in the internet backbone and everybody peers with everybody there. In the US the isps cripple any effort to improve the internet infrastructure for profit.
If that ticked you off, Hetzner support would tick you off even more. Within ~45 minutes of opening a ticket, you get an actual engineer to look into your case, and they are constantly blunt and semi-irate both because of the German work culture and the nature of network/hardware engineering I guess. They fix your stuff fast, and they keep being short, blunt and concise while doing it. No "I'm sorry to hear..." or "Thank you for contacting us with..." blahblah like in the US. All business, no fluff.
Aside from knowing their sh*t and being available at short notice, you'll get along very well after you learn how to communicate with them. By being concise, precise, and blunt of course...
Rather, the backbone providers dont do peering agreements and the traffic is very expensive, especially in the post-zirp inflation period. Europe is different - everybody peers with everybody so traffic is dirt cheap.
Hetzner has all of that. And cloud. Its just that their dedicated server offerings are SO attractive that people keep mentioning that. Otherwise its not like their cloud offering is also very attractive.
I had no issues with Hetzner's component and especially network quality for a decade now. Before that, yeah, there could be some hiccups and issues. But they stopped being issues a long time ago. And really, what hardware issues do you expect on this hardware:
> Today it’s different.
(The post talks about what changed between the mid-2000s and today when it comes to running a WordPress site)
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