Timeline for Need to revisit rules regarding hosted servers
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:14 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Oct 7, 2016 at 14:11 | comment | added | user9517 | Downvotes on meta are people telling you that they disagree - nothing more nothing less. | |
| Oct 7, 2016 at 13:58 | answer | added | Jeter-work | timeline score: -8 | |
| Oct 7, 2016 at 13:51 | comment | added | Sven Mod | This is not different today on Stack Exchange than it was 20 years ago on Usenet and 25 years ago on some BBS systems. | |
| Oct 7, 2016 at 13:45 | comment | added | Sven Mod |
because that's what that post looked like when I posted Yeah, but it turned out you were wrong and the situation is quite different then you thought, so the discussion is moot. Or do you think we need to be careful to not do something we aren't doing anyway? And for the rest: We have discussed this over and over and I don't see a point in a newcomer reiterating this yet again. If you come here as a beginner and write good, well researched, thoughtful questions you will be welcomed. If you don't, people will get mad at you. It's as simple as that.
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| Oct 7, 2016 at 13:40 | history | edited | Jeter-work | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 7, 2016 at 13:38 | comment | added | Jeter-work | Wow, the negative votes. Forget about the post that inspired my post. Please read my discussion points. If you disagree and think that anything that whiffs of online hosting, in any format, should be closed and the user who psoted them should be verbally attacked and excluded, then fine. But you're exhibiting the exact exclusionary behavior that will kill the site. | |
| Oct 7, 2016 at 13:34 | comment | added | Jeter-work | My discussion point is about making sure that we don't close cloud service related questions by mistake (because that's what that post looked like when I posted) AND being careful not to be too vitriolic in closing comments. You all have been contributing to this stack far longer than I have. In this case I'm the new user. And I am telling you that we don't need to post questions here to get answers. And we will stop posting if closing comments are as abrasive, elitist and exclusionary as what I see. Once the new users stop posting, you've basically got a circle jerk of old hands. | |
| Oct 7, 2016 at 13:19 | comment | added | faker | Ignoring CPanel for a moment, the question boils down to "Can I mount a S3 volume on a CentOS server?" Searching for this phrase on a search engine yields tons of results. There has been minimal to no research effort put into this question. It really is not a good fit for SF no matter how you spin it. | |
| Oct 7, 2016 at 13:16 | comment | added | user9517 | We don't support cPanel systems. The End . | |
| Oct 7, 2016 at 12:48 | comment | added | Jeter-work | I don't know enough about cpanel to know whether it can do backups or not. But I do know that with admin access I can make cpanel send backups where I want them to go, period, by the simple expedient of replacing the destination with a symlink pointing where I mounted my desired destination. (Linux OR Windows). The real issue with cpanel is that most instances where someone is using it, they don't have full admin access. And in those instances, no matter what the control panel, the post would be off topic. | |
| Oct 7, 2016 at 12:38 | comment | added | Sven Mod | I am not going to ignore the fact that I know there is CPanel involved just because the OP edited it out. For a vanilla CentOS server, this question would be fine here, but since we know he is doing his backups with CPanel, he should ask on a site where CPanel is not off-topic. | |
| Oct 7, 2016 at 12:36 | history | edited | Jeter-work | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
edited due to new information regarding the post that triggered the discussion
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| Oct 7, 2016 at 12:33 | comment | added | Jeter-work | I see your point about the revision changing the question. And that clears my confusion, for the original post. I've edited this post here on meta as well. It explains why I believe SF does need to be careful in this area. Also, his question does not necessarily need to be closed, in edited format. But making that decision is dependent on his answers regarding the nature of the actual server, and whether he has administrative control. If the backup system he is using is built into his control panel, and hardwired to a certain location, he's f*&ked, we can't answer (& no answer exists). | |
| Oct 7, 2016 at 12:28 | history | edited | Jeter-work | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
completely redid the post.
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| Oct 7, 2016 at 12:19 | comment | added | Sven Mod | @Xalorous: Please check the revision history to learn that this was/is a CPanel question, not an S3 question. Also, we don't need to do anything. | |
| Oct 7, 2016 at 12:08 | comment | added | Jeter-work | Also, I think his reference to Amazon S3 is as a possible storage destination that he'd like to mount. My impression (based on the way he worded being denied a request to add a disk) is that this is a baremetal server in a colocation datacenter. | |
| Oct 7, 2016 at 12:06 | comment | added | Jeter-work | Actually not my post, but the OP has legit system administration questions. | |
| Oct 7, 2016 at 12:04 | comment | added | Reaces | I don't think your post will get closed simply because it is about cloud hosted infrastructure. I've posed some questions about Azure hosted stuff and didn't get closed on yet. | |
| Oct 7, 2016 at 11:47 | comment | added | Jeter-work | Actually, I realize my mistake. The user(s) who flagged the post were wrong. Amazon-S3 is not a web hosting provider, they are a cloud services provider. Industry leading cloud services provider. Their methods are defacto industry standard. | |
| Oct 7, 2016 at 11:43 | history | asked | Jeter-work | CC BY-SA 3.0 |