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The questions are fine. Pro Sysadmins are not the only ones who can benefit from this site. I'm glad someone would come to SF to ask about on-demand computing resources or to get a sanity-check on an application design's infrastructure. There are a lot of organizations that rely heavily on DevOps staff whose primary responsibilities lie on the software side. Why the hate?
Also, high-rep users don't ask enough questions!! I go out of my way to ask detailed and potentially helpful questions. It's giving back to the community and the type of thing that can attract great answers from infrequent visitors. Hmmm, but how do we retain users like that?
I think we miss some opportunities on product recommendations. People end up finding their own paths to solutions, but sometimes having experienced users chime in and say, use X, it works make sense.
The OP was target for being a developer. That dev status was the reason for the hatin'. The question was rightfully closed quickly, but it's comment thread that followed that seemed particularly-nasty.
