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		multjoy 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: SMBC Parts Ways with Hiveworks I remember running a semi-popular phpBB back in the early 00's. There was nothing like Digital Ocean or Linode. You can run a small instance for pocket change today.

Kye 11 months ago [–]

There were VPSes and managed servers back then, but most people went with shared hosts that supported PHP and MySQL. That's how WordPress got so big.

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