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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. From such people I would expect great questions that are on-topic for Serve …
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Google Cloud will be Sponsoring Server Fault SE

Question: Will this effect the currently sponsored tags and if so, how? google-cloud-platform https://serverfault.com/tags/google-cloud-platform/info google-app-engine https://serverfault.com/tags/go …
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Problems with low-traffic Stack Exchange sites

edit: Become part of the solution Your main problem appears that your questions don't get the answers that you feel they deserve. That is indeed a problem and you find that on most sites, many questio …
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Why doesn't ServerFault allow questions about unsupported hardware/software platforms?

What is the rationale for not allowing questions about unsupported platforms? It's been my experience that a big part of being an IT professional is dealing with old stuff. In general each question …
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What is the proper procedure when an old answer no longer works?

Generally the same applies as with any other problem, you ask a good question that includes: What are you trying to do? What have you tried in order to make it happen? What results did you expect? Wh …
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Web Hosting Control Panel questions migration

I have updated the tag descriptions for cpanel, virtualmin and plesk accordingly.
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Lots of OpenEBS questions from new users

I hadn't thought of a recurrence of the eternal September but a lot of it has been dealt with by the community moderators. It appeared as a pair accounts working in tandem and alternating posting th …
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How long should it take to write an SF question?

You may not ask many questions, but you write a lot of answers. I would expect that you can write a question that is well received with a similar amount of effort as compared to what a good answer …
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What to do when Author removed the hyperlink to the source but left a quotation?

I think you don't have sufficient reputation yet to see the complete revision history of Q&A's. After your edit there have been two additional edits on the answer: Revision #5 by another user with …
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Is not mentioning business environment equal to off-topic?

No, you don’t need to explicitly mention a business environment. Please be aware that the Stack Exchange software only allows for a limited number of pre-defined close reasons. Questions on Ser …
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create "self-hosting" tag

My first association with a tag such as "self-hosting" is @HOME, DIY and an amateur approach, rather than managing information technology systems in a business environment which makes it off-topic fo …
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Was this question wrongly marked as an exact duplicate?

Michael already showed you where to find the link so I will respond to your assertion that your question was wrongfully closed. When a question gets closed as a duplicate it will get a text block be …
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Is the "Add Another Answer" button really required?

You might need to post multiple answers because you have reached the maximum answer size and still have more to say as evidenced in this Q&A I have posted a question with two different answers to ma …
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Question about "Amazon API gateway" put on hold at Server Fault

In the words of Amazon that is functionality designed for developers and that makes the question almost always off-topic for Server Fault: Amazon API Gateway Amazon API Gateway is a fully manage …
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Is it time for a canonical question/answer on non-hostname-aware protocols?

Good idea!
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