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0 pointspelagicAustral1y ago0 comments

This stuff is still packaged with cPanel, which is probably the most common way to manage web servers on the internet.

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I wonder how long it's been since that was true. I think that era passed when most small businesses and individuals moved from self hosting to SaaS.

technion1y ago

Nearly every website developer servicing small business builds a WordPress site and sets it up on a hosting company's cPanel install with phpmyadmin running by default.

Macha1y ago

Which are far far outnumbered by people setting up squarespace sites, or shopify sites or facebook pages or twitter profiles these days.

It was definitely true at one point that small scale indie web devs and small business contractors outnumbered big tech in both headcount and servers. I don't think that's been true for a while now.

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jsheard1y ago

I guess those installs are the ones the Wordpress vuln scanners are looking for when they spam my server with /wp-admin/ requests.

doublerabbit1y ago

I serve a cPanel hosting, some people just want something up and running now which cPanel provides.

With Softaculous for automatic installation of scripts it's still widely popular for Wordpress installations. Web hosting is however a very dead market to startup in.

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Macha1y ago

I wonder how long it's been since that was true. I think that era passed when most small businesses and individuals moved from self hosting to SaaS.

technion1y ago

Nearly every website developer servicing small business builds a WordPress site and sets it up on a hosting company's cPanel install with phpmyadmin running by default.

Macha1y ago

Which are far far outnumbered by people setting up squarespace sites, or shopify sites or facebook pages or twitter profiles these days.

It was definitely true at one point that small scale indie web devs and small business contractors outnumbered big tech in both headcount and servers. I don't think that's been true for a while now.

2 more replies

jsheard1y ago

I guess those installs are the ones the Wordpress vuln scanners are looking for when they spam my server with /wp-admin/ requests.

doublerabbit1y ago

I serve a cPanel hosting, some people just want something up and running now which cPanel provides.

With Softaculous for automatic installation of scripts it's still widely popular for Wordpress installations. Web hosting is however a very dead market to startup in.

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