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Originally Posted by Babaganoosh
All of the provisions to manage domains/dbs/emails whatever is already built into the OS. I don't understand using a control panel to manage things that can already be managed directly from the OS.
I don't think I am better than anyone. If I don't know what I am doing, I hire a professional. I just had to add an electrical outlet and a new security light at my house. Since I know jack shit about wiring a house, I called an electrician and paid him to do it properly. That way I don't burn my house down.
My point is that if you don't know what you're doing, don't fuck with it. If you need a control panel, you should not be managing a server. I wonder how many of these half-ass, wanna-be admin's servers get compromised because they haven't the slightest idea what they are doing. If your server(s) are your livelihood, why not do your best to make sure things are done right?
Obviously none of this applies to shared hosting users who don't have the option to manage their own servers. This applies to those who need Direct Admin/Plesk/WHM to perform true administrative tasks.
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This just doesn't makes any sense what you are saying. In the beginning everything was done on the command line and we had to write shell scripts to do the tasks we had to do over and over again. So when you are looking at hosting control panel it is just a collection of scripts to speed up the work. I know how to do things on the command line and luckily we have a good team to do all the work for our clients. But why would i do manually with for instance setting up a domain, when i can also do it with one click of a button in a control panel, less change you make a mistake or anything. It is just so much faster. Can you get security problems, yes. but you can also get those when not installing a control panel. You should just have a good host that use a IDS (intrusion detection system)
Control panel are the way to go and as professional as use the command line. Of course something thing are just faster when using the command line. So using a combination of both is perfect.