Hetzner

If you’ve followed this blog for a while, you may have noticed that I’ve used a traditionally installed (i.e., not dockerized) LAMP stack for its server setup since 2014. Only recently did I switch to Docker containers. Why? Maintenance. Much facilitated maintenance. If you take a look at the articles I’ve written over the years describing how to upgrade to newer versions of Ubuntu or - god beware - PHP, you can’t help but realize what a godawful PITA it all is. Switching to Docker enforces (or at least strongly encourages) a strict separation of (public) code and (personal) configuration. With this new setup, upgrading from one PHP version to another involves nothing more than changing a version number in a text file.

This post is a follow-up to my 2016 article on how to install Windows Server on Hetzner’s EX51 hosted dedicated servers. Hetzner offers many types of dedicated servers at very attractive prices and - astonishingly - good support. This article lists some issues we encountered while installing Windows Server 2019 on the EX62 and AX100 servers and how we worked around them. Reading the earlier article is highly recommended.