Timeline for Are cpanel questions really 'professional sysadmin' related?
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| Jun 26, 2012 at 10:18 | comment | added | Rob Moir | I don't think it's a clear cut. - I think its very clear cut. As a system admin, cPanel is an application you install to allow customers (and maybe customer service agents) to administer their slice of a hosted service offering. It's not a tool you'd install to use to administer the server yourself by choice. The only area I think it's possibly on topic on is a sysadmin who's asking for help with getting cPanel to work. | |
| Jun 26, 2012 at 6:41 | comment | added | user9517 Mod | When you look at it in real number terms 486/117565 it's not as many as you make it appear. | |
| Jun 25, 2012 at 21:00 | comment | added | Bruno | @EightBitTony, I don't think it's a clear cut. If you look at their demo, even the simple "domain owner" interface talks about SSH access, FTP, DNS MX entry, SSL config, cron jobs, DNS zones edition, MySQL/PostgreSQL admin, Apache handlers. Even if it's a simplified interface that doesn't give you full control, all these topics are in the realm of system administration (and not solely "web"). Some answers may require expertise from sysadmins who would know how to perform these tasks without cPanel. | |
| Jun 25, 2012 at 20:48 | comment | added | EightBitTony | You're not administering a server with cPanel, you're interacting with a web hosting application. I see it pretty clear cut at that level, I appreciate some might not agree with me. But just so we're clear where I stand. | |
| Jun 25, 2012 at 20:46 | comment | added | Bruno | @EightBitTony. If the questions are inherently bad ("Typos and bad grammar are normal and there is often loads of irrelevant information and none of the relevant stuff" as Ladadadada says), they should just be closed as "not constructive" or "not a real question" (when appropriate). I'm just saying that not everyone administers supercomputers or large clusters. I'd argue that even small business hosting can be on-topic. If they "manage computer systems in a professional capacity" using cPanel, fair enough; that's not what I would use, but that doesn't make it off-topic. | |
| Jun 25, 2012 at 20:40 | comment | added | EightBitTony | The vast majority of those questions have 2 or fewer votes, and many, many of them have 0 or fewer votes (on the questions, not even considering the answers). I think the question here is, how many people 'manage computer systems in a professional capacity' using cPanel? In my experience, it's used almost exclusively by web hosting resellers and people who've bought consumer grade / small business hosting, and who use it rather than administer the system on which it sits? | |
| Jun 25, 2012 at 20:31 | history | answered | Bruno | CC BY-SA 3.0 |