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Is AI more Humanistic than the System?
My experience with both says Yes!
I have been setting up my platform on Liquid Web. The plan I have provides root access, but my login was consistently declined, without which there is no root access. The plan is very reasonably priced, but at every turn, one is being sold an add-on service. Control panel access costs three and a half times the cost of the basic plan, but with root access and File Zilla, and Claude (AI), I don’t need the control panel. I went over the setup with Claude too many times. All the settings were confirmed as correct. I contacted support, and intermittently, there were hints that support isn’t included with a self-managed plan, but root access is, and root access requires a login.
With Claude’s help, I set up SSH keys as an alternative to root access. Then I installed WordPress, which was initially working until the connection to the database suddenly stopped being accessible. Once again, I went over every aspect of setting up the password and privileges and exhausted every possibility before contacting support, where I received the same attitude that my server doesn’t come with support services, and apparently not login and connection services either.
My hosting service might have been intentionally blocking me, so I decided to move to another server and start all over. My…
