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by majewsky 3314 days ago
Looks like hug of death:

> Error establishing a database connection

Does someone have an archive link? (Or an explanation why rendering this article requires a database connection, for that matter.)

3 comments

It requires a database connection because it's Wordpress and Wordpress stores the article's content in the database, not the filesystem.
Because it is using Wordpress or some other useless PHP-based CMS.
They're not useless when you don't have time to program your own CMS. Wordpress is good for blogs. It takes no time to set up, is crazy customizable and widely supported. Writing your own solution in whatever nodejs-react wonderland would take much more time than is necessary.

A good alternative would be to use github pages.

They're not useless if the person using them can't program