Follow huge communities where everything is already fixed, tested, and well maintained. 😄
Honestly, Go + Alpine hasn’t been a bad experience — I’ve been drilling it nonstop for the last 26 days on a VPS. But DigitalOcean won’t even allow sending simple emails by default — most mail ports are blocked, and you have to go through paid or verified setups to get email working properly.
Alpine or other JS setups also make simple uploads feel harder than they should be… really??? 😂
What I learned:
Sometimes spending 30 minutes on cheap shared hosting + WordPress is far better than spending 26 days debugging massive VPS setups.
Long live WordPress.
I’m never ever going to step outside the WordPress zone again. I’ve tried many times and always ended up with dumb!!!