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 Wo…
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