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Some parting thoughts... and apologies for the drama

We, the members of the Serverfault community, have all been discussing for years how bloody cPanel (and the like) have no place here. …
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Abrupt change in moderation staff?

questions, with the week of the 12th seeing a whopping 312 questions closed with: This question appears to be off-topic because it is about working with a service provider's management interface, such as cPanel
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Are cpanel questions really 'professional sysadmin' related?

A question that mentions cpanel is not de-facto off-topic. It is possible an otherwise competent admin inherited a cpanel disaster and now has to make it work. … the application vendor (cpanel). …
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Where can I ask questions about web hosting control panels?

The support pages of the most popular control panels are available: cPanel/WHM DirectAdmin ISPConfig Kloxo/HyperVM Plesk Sentora ServerPilot VestaCP Virtualmin ZPanel Stack Exchange Some Stack …
Michael Hampton's user avatar
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What should we do with questions about Vagrant?

and is not about: consumer workstations or networking (which belong on our sister site, Super User) working with a service provider's management interface, such as cPanel product, service, …
Mark Henderson's user avatar
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Is it time to kill problematic tags like cpanel, plesk, whm and webmin?

They are especially interested in receiving questions about shared web hosting, control panels like cPanel and Plesk, and basic Apache .htaccess stuff. …
Michael Hampton's user avatar
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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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What should Server Fault do with questions about web hosting control panels?

(sadly less frequent than my trips through the queues lately), but here's my three-fiddy: We've long had a policy about web hosting panels - I was the idiot overly-kind person who made the case that cpanel
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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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What should Server Fault do with questions about web hosting control panels?

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 … exactly cPanel is managing and what it's leaving alone. …
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What should Server Fault do with questions about web hosting control panels?

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 … I have one CentOS 5 system with cPanel (fortunately the very last one, and it will be replaced soon with a normal web server) on which git is out of date, and cannot be updated, because cPanel has replaced …
Michael Hampton's user avatar
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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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2014 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire

A lot of things that are absolute garbage here are decent questions elsewhere: Abstract or basic UNIX questions Non-admin webmaster questions (cpanel et. al., shared hosting) User or home questions Very …
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Question about Migrated post that was closed

Web site control panels such as cPanel and Plesk are extremely unlikely to be used in a professional environment. … See also the related question, Are cpanel questions really 'professional sysadmin' related? …
Michael Hampton's user avatar
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2015 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire

For example: Tag removal request: soho Is it time to kill problematic tags like cpanel, plesk, whm and webmin? …
Falcon Momot's user avatar
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