My website host of over fifteen years went out of business, leaving my account ‘suspended’ without notice. While they said they sent two notices, I have spent over a decade complaining that I do not receive notifications from them. Essentially, all my work from 2002 was taken down. Anyway. Their support team brought my hosting up for for 48 hours to move to a new host.
Except that during this period I was on a holiday with only my iPad. It held up splendidly for all sorts of maintenance actions, proving it’s a computer in every sense of the term. Migrating to a new host involved a terminal, FTP, downloading and uploading files, zipping and unzipping them locally and remotely. Finally, a web-based chat session to fix some final issues. The iPad handled all of this without any issues. In many ways, especially the endless logging in and out using FaceID and Keychain, and with battery life, it was faster than a Mac.
PS the only drawback is the complicated multi-tasking behaviour. There needs to be a faster way to view and switch between arbitrary open app windows, and neither Cmd-Tab nor the slow-drag-up gesture to reveal open windows is up to the task.