Those how to install X on a VPS articles are requested by active customers, occasionally written by customers, and consumed far more often than you think by cus

Those how to install X on a VPS articles are requested by active customers, occasionally written by customers, and consumed far more often than you think by customers. DigitalOcean responded to Linode Library (as it was then called) when building that out, and having been somewhat involved in the development of Linode Library, I can assure you that neither SEO nor PageRank was near the top of the rationale list. Maybe tenth on the list as a nice bonus. The people who worked on Linode Library in the beginning were engineers, not social media people nor content marketers. The person who wrote its first CMS is a former nuclear submariner and Perl guy with like nine followers on Twitter. I’m sure you imagine a huge meat grinder spam operation paying by the word, but basically one engineer thanklessly wrote more than half of it in the beginning and went on to a distinguished career at 10gen/Mongo, not sitting on Mechanical Turk. I’d bet DO’s operation is identical and exists for the same reasons, and they’re just as proud of it as I am my extremely limited contributions to an offering that objectively improves the operations discipline. It’s annoying to watch valuable work that expands the profession get dunked on and called spam by a snide comment for absolutely no reason. There’s no reason to be so cynical about things in a hot take, particularly when it was an irrelevant shot in context. Not everyone is blessed with innate knowledge nor a gift for studying man pages, and those docs are useful checklists to make sure I didn’t forget anything with common software like ntpd to this day in my own, principal level, career. People learn Unix operations by buying a Linode. For a $10/month VPS you also get a bunch of tested, free guides that work on them and teach you how to do things. They’re not paywalled to customers and show up in your Google results. I know. The abject horror is almost unbearable.