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Are cpanel questions really 'professional sysadmin' related?

Do any professional sysadmins really use cPanel, rather than provide cPanel? To me, cPanel is indicative of non-professional (i.e. voluntary, spare time, personal) web hosting use? … Sure, I can see questions from people who run hosting farms and provide cPanel for their users having a place here, but every time I read a question with cPanel in the tags I think, this is surely someone …
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Why do people think questions about cPanel/WHM is the same as questions about cPanel?

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. … 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. …
Kraang Prime's user avatar
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Is Spam Assassin via CPanel configuration on-topic?

Using CPanel, I only see options to black/white-list domains, but I would like to mark as spam based on certain words in the email subject. Is it on-topic to ask on this site how to do so? …
Mawg's user avatar
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Do we consider Bitnami to fall under the cPanel close reason?

It's not exactly a cPanel-style system, but it shares the same characteristics - weird, specific, one-click configurations that are pervasive and difficult to debug and tweak. …
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Is it time to kill problematic tags like cpanel, plesk, whm and webmin?

The three four that stand out to me are cpanel, plesk, whm and webmin. … users somehow manage to miss all the information about what's actually on topic here, but do manage to find those tags, and then expect that this would be a good place to ask about how to server when cpanel
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Retag whmcpanel to whm?

I vote that whmcpanel (with 75 questions) be retagged whm (which has 239 questions) Arguably both could be merged into cpanel but cpanel questions could be from users who don't have access to WHM, so …
Josh's user avatar
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What is a proper question that is on topic?

However my question was put on hold and I'm not sure why: Sending email via php generates exim error after cPanel upgrade After consulting with the cPanel group I found the solution and would normally …
user6972's user avatar
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What should Server Fault do with questions about web hosting control panels?

Sysadmins who run web sites the "normal" way will find cPanel disappointing and frustrating, to say the least. … Deal with administering parts of the system not affected by the web hosting control panel, e.g. a web hosting provider wants to set up NTP, and the presence of cPanel is incidental because cPanel does …
Michael Hampton's user avatar
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2 answers
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Web Hosting Control Panel questions migration

I wanted to share that we got contacted back by Webmasters Stack Exchange for cPanel/WHC question that are off-topic there on ServerFault, that they will gladly accept them. …
yagmoth555's user avatar
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Is a question about configuring a server admin panel off topic?

A three year old question of mine was just put "on hold" for relating to "working with a service provider's management interface, such as cPanel." The wording here is a little ambiguous. …
Sean W.'s user avatar
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2 votes
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Where this is a web hosting control panel?

Sorry for the honesty but whoever closed this should be back to the basics and learn the difference on things like: cPanel, Plesk, Webmin to things like: TrueNAS, FreeNAS, NAS4Free, Nexenta. …
Vinícius Ferrão's user avatar
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1 answer
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Need to revisit rules regarding hosted servers

(Sven pointed out that the original question, before editing, WAS cpanel related - cpanel/whm in the title and tagged cpanel, and should be moved to another stack or closed. …
Jeter-work's user avatar
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4 answers
367 views

Why were my questions deleted and account suspended?

The latest question to run afoul of the moderators was: https://serverfault.com/questions/491250/whm-cpanel-alternatives "WHM/cPanel alternatives" The closing note on the question says We expect answers … That being said, I have actually answered a question here Varnish, Nginx, Apache, APC, Meteor, Cpanel & Wordpress On A Single Server, Any Good? My answer was converted to a comment by a moderator. …
OC2PS's user avatar
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Honeypotting Serverfault for questions that should not be asked! Should this stop?

The reasons for not supporting cPanel have not changed. No. We don't ban topics, cPanel included. There is such a thing, although rare, as a good cPanel question. … Contrary to your comments on your other meta question, the closure rate for cPanel questions is not 100%. Yes. …
EEAA's user avatar
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Are cpanel questions really 'professional sysadmin' related?

I think the argument that "I am a professional sysadmin and I don't use cPanel, therefore cPanel is not a professional sysadmin tool" is kinda elitist. … the tool nor does it make questions relating to cPanel off-topic. …
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