Fuck - from an average coder perspective, try getting a working linux DNS server for home lab use in 2005 without having to waste a weekend or two on it.

LAMP servers were heralded as the best thing since sliced bread because of how it all just "worked."

And then add in maintenance and all the other sucky sucks of having competing binaries screw everything up.

Now, when it worked, it felt more accomplished than spinning up a `docker run...` or `argocd app create...`

However, I enjoy doing the cool shit on top of this stack now rather than waste my life figuring out why my apache process can't properly invoke php code.