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Is cpanel that bad?

• mingus88 3y ago
  I mean, yeah, if you are a professional it’s a bad look to have to depend on a web GUI It’s like being a valet and not being able to operate a manual transmission
  • cranberryturkey 3y ago
    exactly
  • andrewflnr 3y ago
    Well yes, that's embarrassing for them, but I wouldn't consider it grounds for a hard refusal. Hiring cheap help is potentially decent business practice for low-stakes work. Refusal seems more appropriate if there was real damage from the software that raised it to an issue of professional ethics...
    • cranberryturkey 3y ago
      If they can't use the command line they suck. period.
      • andrewflnr 3y ago
        I can't agree. Would you say the same for someone who was a pure designer? I doubt it. Would it suddenly become true if they picked up a little bit of admin-by-GUI on the side? Again, doubt it. But then how much technical skill can you have before the command-line-or-they-suck clause kicks in? It may have been true for the particular guy your previous boss hired, but it's unsupportable as a generalization.
• gregjor 3y ago
  Giving root permissions to a complex and opaque web GUI with a history of security problems seems bad. While it’s possible to correctly secure cPanel, the skills needed to do that are the same as those needed to manage the server without it.