Questions tagged [allowed-topics]
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What should Server Fault do with questions about web hosting control panels?
We've had this discussion before, but it's apparently time to revisit it. For some background, see:
http://meta.serverfault.com/q/1075/126632
http://meta.serverfault.com/q/3425/126632
http://meta....
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Where can I ask questions about web hosting control panels?
My question was closed as off-topic because it is "about a web hosting control panel". But I still need help. Where can I ask my question?
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In what circumstances should VirtualBox questions be on topic?
Oracle VM VirtualBox is a virtualization solution which is (now) supposedly targeted at "enterprise as well as home users" according to its web site.
In the past, we've been mostly hostile to ...
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Let us (continue to) close old, off-topic questions about web hosting control panels
I'm not going to rehash all the drama of the last few days surrounding our former moderator HopelessN00b's mass closing of old, off-topic questions about web hosting control panels, but something ...
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Serverfault, superuser, or nowhere?
I have a question that I'd like to post, which is entirely business related, which concerns connecting a home worker to a corporate network using an ADSL router with a VPN client built in to it. The ...
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Is "Telephony" (as defined by Area 51 proposal) on topic here?
I need your help and expertise. There is a proposal inching its way through Area 51 to create a separate site for experts in Telephony (PBX/PABX/IP PBX/VoIP/ToIP). Please have a look at this proposal:
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What should we do with questions about Vagrant?
We have, at last count, 335 questions tagged vagrant.
As far as I know, for the most part this is a tool used by developers to create developer environments, and not something that is useful in ...
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Should subjective questions be subjected to closure?
The recent discussion around the WebServer Benchmarks question has me thinking.
This question poses a generally useful query that doesn't have one true answer. Part of our mission is to understand ...
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Is there an appropriate place for System Administration career oriented questions?
As I understand it, ServerFault is reserved for technical questions that are specific to the professional support of systems, network and desktop infrastructure in a business environment. Where does ...
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mod_rewrite/htaccess/etc. questions - migrate?
As was noted by sysadmin1138 in the Unprofessional Questions thread, we've been getting a lot of mod_rewrite questions as of late. Add to those all of the questions we get asked regularly about ...
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List Questions - What to do with new ones
A "list question" recently came up. This is not asking for a list of options which satisfy as set of requirements, that's a "shopping question". They were originally allowed on SF, and still are on SO....
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