The 'off-topic' blah blah, warns of cPanel as being off topic, so it allows moderators to just brush by a post, see the word 'cPanel', and put on hold / etc on the fly.

Yes, moderators rush through a lot, but they sometimes miss the key element of moderating --- TO READ THROUGH **BEFORE** making any judgement.

I recently made a post regarding the administrative side of cPanel/WHM, which unfortunately bears the same name as the user control panel 'cPanel' which is what is being confused here.

The server portion, is not unlike managing a windows server, but in Linux, with full shell access and control at 'root' of everything, and it happens to have a web-gui to assist in administration of some of these tasks.

So when asking about cPanel/WHM, and clarifying in my post that is what the discussion is about, why is this an issue.  Further, this thread >> http://meta.serverfault.com/questions/8094/where-can-i-ask-questions-about-web-hosting-control-panels  << is a joke. The answer starts off talking about how you need to get support for the user side from your host --- no duh ... people really shouldn't be asking about that here as USERCP != ADMIN --- but more so, stating to talk to vendor on all support issues.

If this is the case to talk to the vendor about all issues of a product or assistance with their products, then this site would be barren of questions, as I can not find a single item that can't be answered by the vendor of X flavor of linux under paid/free support, or abc software application, or xyz bundle of software applications.

So why choose to exclude cPanel -- arguably the #1 control panel for hosts to install that allows them to create client access accounts from which the client has restricted access to their little jailed portion of the hosts server.

?????