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What makes virtual box off topic on server fault?

Home and end-user computing questions may be asked on Super User, and questions about development, testing and development tools may be asked on Stack Overflow." … and VBox is a desktop virt tool used for software development and/or home/lab use. We are interested in questions dealing with production environments (VBox is not suited for those). …
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Where do I ask a question about backup of local mac and vmware fusion based prototyping envi...

As a developer (or someone in DevOps, or someone in a home lab environment), a good quality question/answer about how to backup your VMware Fusion-based development environment on your laptop is probably …
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Simple Question: are homelab questions are on topic for Serverfault

I know of people whose home-lab is better equipped than the test/lab equipment many of my employers were providing me with. … Many other home-lab questions are more from power users and enthousiasts. …
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Lack of fairly modern network technology questions

At home, my four servers are connected via a gigabit switch. … This is fast enough for me - I could find fibre cards for the lot and upgrade to a 10gig switch but that's gonna be seriously expensive - something for a home lab doesn't really need fiber. …
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Is the "Questions should demonstrate reasonable information technology management practices"...

Some folk really are doing home-lab stuff which isn't exactly topical. Others are supporting terrible situations and need all the help they can get (beyond the usual get another job advice.) …
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2013 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire

I believe the professional capacity really does mean someone who is doing this for a living (as opposed to questions related to even the most crazyass home lab), and knows roughly what he's doing. …
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Why are we so strict on the rules?

Limiting it to money/employment/freelancing services would mean to forbid perfectly good questions about managing a cluster of 64 virtual machines to deploy CI on a home lab that is up to best practices …
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Simple Question: are homelab questions are on topic for Serverfault

I'm noticing that more and more questions related to some home lab environment are appearing. As I understand the rules, this is not on topic. …
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Rescind rule on business IT?

I think it's time to rescind that rule, and allow more complex home lab questions, in the interest of getting a bigger community and more activity on the site. … Typical home user questions should still be redirected to appropriate sites, but not just because the word 'home' is used in the question. …
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Where do questions regarding labs for enterprise equipment & software belong if not SF?

His criticisms of the question had to do with it being "non-production, non-professional, home lab environment" and it not being a "reasonable business information technology management practice" to nest … EEAA's insistence that lab environment questions do not belong on SF is not at all included in the help page. …
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