Six months with no control panel

Six months with no control panel

Please understand, I am doing this for learning. Six months ago I uninstalled every GUI from server, went pure ssh and config files. This thread will document weekly updates.

Week 1: everything takes five times longer. I broke nginx three times. No regrets

Week 2: discovered tmux. Life changing.

Week 4: wrote help script for automating common tasks. Still using cpanel in work though (hypocrite)

Week 8: actually faster than before for most things. certbot renewal via cron, no clicky clicky.

Week 12: client wants shared hosting access. I made them ssh account. They cried.

Week 16: starting to forget where things are in control panels. Good sign?

Week 20: hired for rush job, client insists on control panel. I installed hestia in 45 minutes. Project delivered. Server has GUI again.

Conclusion: learning valuable, purity overrated. Use right tool for job

This is a genuinely useful chronicle of skill acquisition. Thank you for documenting the emotional trajectory alongside the technical one.

The week twelve observation is particularly telling: expertise often manifests as inability to navigate interfaces designed for novices. Your client incident illustrates the market reality that most purchasers expect visual abstraction layers.

Two spaces after periods. Old habit. 🍜

Hej, this is inspiring!! I am on server without panel two years now, but I started from beginning, no hestia before. Into config directly, no problem.

No, I think you did good learning. Malý server with panel is still malý server, but you understand him better now.

On work I use ansible for everything, no click. Clients never see server, only result.