Following.
Looking for anyone who successfully used their 'website builder'
wendy said:
Which OS were you on when the font settings broke?
Windows 10 on laptop. But I think font thing is same everywhere, they give you list of six fonts and if you want different one you must use custom CSS block. Which defeats purpose of builder for normal person.
builds at 3AM, sleeps at noon
wendy
Member
I tried it on Server 2019 with IE11 for a laugh. The font dropdown doesn't even render. Not that anyone should use IE11, but still, it's 2026 and they have an audience that expects things to just work.
The builder is fine if you stay inside the lines. The moment you want a custom font or actual analytics beyond their basic counter, you're pasting code into blocks and hoping for the best.
Have you tried restarting it?
Prague
Member
center807 said:
Enterprise-grade deployment
My Core 2 Duo tower in the hallway is more enterprise-grade than this builder. At least I know where the single point of failure is.
iron core, iron will
Nadia59
Member OP
tallinnying said:
Which defeats purpose of builder for normal person.
This. Exactly this. I am normal person. I do not want CSS block. I want button that says "make it look nice" and then it looks nice. Maybe this does not exist. Maybe I should pay someone in Mexico City to do it properly instead of trying to save money with German server company website builder.
marchhopper
Member
Carl said:
He thought he needed bare metal for "performance." The builder loads in 8 seconds on a Xeon Gold.
The machine is not the bottleneck. The bottleneck is seventeen sequential JavaScript bundles loaded from a single origin, no HTTP/2 push, no preload hints. I measured. The builder's own editor loads slower than the sites it produces.
The friend with the tripled bounce rate? They were on Hetzner's CX11 in Nuremberg. 4 EUR. The latency to their customers in Portugal was acceptable. The latency of the builder's asset pipeline was not.
marchhopper said:
Seventeen sequential JavaScript bundles
I believe it. The R640 guy? He was paying 49 EUR/month for that bare metal in Falkenstein. Thought colo meant "faster." I tried to explain that his users were in Brazil and the builder's CDN is... whatever Hetzner's default is — https://www.hetzner.com/cloud. He didn't want to hear it.
Sold him a second R640 six months later. For "load balancing." Same site.
visit twice: install and decom
lookuppierre
Member
For my association we use WordPress on Hetzner VPS since 2019. 5 EUR per month. The website builder I tried one time for a small event page. I could not make it match our colors exactly. The hex code was close but not same. For association branding this is problem. I made static page with Hugo instead.
Hetzner is good for server. The builder is... extra thing they have. Not why you go to Hetzner.
prix fixe infrastructure: €5/mo