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Made VPS last month with Contabo. First time no panel, only CLI. Learned more in two weeks than six months with cPanel before. GUI hides the mechanics sir. You click button, magic happens, you learn nothing.
Now I can troubleshoot nginx myself, configure firewall with iptables, even setup LetsEncrypt without plugin. Thank you very much sir
Who else feel same? Or am I wrong here?
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IMO there's a balance. YMMV, but I used CLI-only for years and hit walls with DNS zone management—typos in bind configs, serial number mistakes, weird propagation issues. A panel for DNS saved me hours of headache.
Take it with a grain of salt, but I think the danger is using panels as a crutch for *everything*, not using them strategically for the tedious parts.
Ngl I run inference workloads on bare metal and lol I need every GB of RAM I can get. Panels eat like 300-500MB just sitting there. For LLM serving that's literally money.
I use docker compose files and a bash script. Automation without bloat. My 24GB VRAM box thanks me.
€4/MO ARE YOU KIDDING Contabo had that deal last black friday I SNAPPED IT UP but they wanted $3/mo for panel addon NOPE ran CLI only saved $36/yr which is THREE YEARS of the base price lol
Deal hunting > GUI comfort
300MB for a panel? Bruh
Contabo's €4/mo deal sounds too good. What's the catch?
