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There's a discussion over on ServerFault Meta about how to handle questions about web hosting control panelsa discussion over on ServerFault Meta about how to handle questions about web hosting control panels, such as e.g. webmin, cpanel and their ilk.

The consensus is that at least 99% of those questions don't belong on ServerFault, because using those things pretty much destroy any chance of handling the system according to best practices.

Would it be appropriate to move such questions to Unix/Linux, or would they be considered off-topic here too?

I could see how they would be on-topic, given that they're about software that runs on Unix. I could also see how they would be off-topic, given that at least cpanel mucks around with the systems so much that it's very hard for someone who knows "normal" unix operations to figure out how to solve their problems. And I'd rather not recommend migration of stuff that this community doesn't want.

There's a discussion over on ServerFault Meta about how to handle questions about web hosting control panels, such as e.g. webmin, cpanel and their ilk.

The consensus is that at least 99% of those questions don't belong on ServerFault, because using those things pretty much destroy any chance of handling the system according to best practices.

Would it be appropriate to move such questions to Unix/Linux, or would they be considered off-topic here too?

I could see how they would be on-topic, given that they're about software that runs on Unix. I could also see how they would be off-topic, given that at least cpanel mucks around with the systems so much that it's very hard for someone who knows "normal" unix operations to figure out how to solve their problems. And I'd rather not recommend migration of stuff that this community doesn't want.

There's a discussion over on ServerFault Meta about how to handle questions about web hosting control panels, such as e.g. webmin, cpanel and their ilk.

The consensus is that at least 99% of those questions don't belong on ServerFault, because using those things pretty much destroy any chance of handling the system according to best practices.

Would it be appropriate to move such questions to Unix/Linux, or would they be considered off-topic here too?

I could see how they would be on-topic, given that they're about software that runs on Unix. I could also see how they would be off-topic, given that at least cpanel mucks around with the systems so much that it's very hard for someone who knows "normal" unix operations to figure out how to solve their problems. And I'd rather not recommend migration of stuff that this community doesn't want.

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Are web hosting control panels on-topic?

There's a discussion over on ServerFault Meta about how to handle questions about web hosting control panels, such as e.g. webmin, cpanel and their ilk.

The consensus is that at least 99% of those questions don't belong on ServerFault, because using those things pretty much destroy any chance of handling the system according to best practices.

Would it be appropriate to move such questions to Unix/Linux, or would they be considered off-topic here too?

I could see how they would be on-topic, given that they're about software that runs on Unix. I could also see how they would be off-topic, given that at least cpanel mucks around with the systems so much that it's very hard for someone who knows "normal" unix operations to figure out how to solve their problems. And I'd rather not recommend migration of stuff that this community doesn't want.