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Taking a break from this subreddit... (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I had to delete my previous post about what we hosting control panels are being used by those who also have webhost businesses.

I just can't spend the next 20 days trying to explain

Data Centers Exist
How SMTP works
That webhosting has a very high profit margin
No sane person hosts a business server in their basement. See point 1.
How to get off blacklists
Hosting a website or email is not the same as giving someone full access to your server.
How shared hosting works.
And and and

I've been in the hosting business for 19 years. It's a good income. And it's what got me interested in having a homelab and selfhosting as a hobby. It's also what got me into using Linux as a daily driver.

But too many people here are so narrow minded and have zero concept of the existence of anything outside their own home lab.

I just wanted to find out, from those who ALSO run hosting servers in actual data centers (which do exist despite what you heard Alex Jones tell you). I just wanted to know what was other people's choice of hosting panel.

I might come back at a later stage but I can't deal with this level of intellect that I have encountered tonight.

Cheers, I'm out, and thank you for all the fish.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Wow some people know less than you and are here to learn, shocking. See ya.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

those who ALSO run hosting servers in actual data centers

That's such a small group of people and with the self selection of who is in this /c, I have to think that you were being a bit naive about what you expected to find.

Sorry it wasn't what you'd hoped for.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I might come back at a later stage but I can't deal with this level of intellect that I have encountered tonight.

No you're right, we're all very dumb and you should probably stay away.