Re: Server forum
You'll never get a clear boundary in every case. If somebody has a PHP problem, it may not be clear whether they configured Apache wrong (server problem), didn't set up the network right (networking problem), wrote the test script wrong (programming problem), or didn't know how to configure PHP (application problem). And the topic may cross boundaries as points are raised.
But I do think there should be a server oriented forum. Some of the questions asked are a poor fit in applications (how to I set up up a ftp server, how do I do virtual hosts, how do I do load balancing, how do I set up my own nameserver). Only by taking the meaning of applications broadly can one fit those questions there. I think that if one can answer yes to these two questions: 1. will people recognise most of the time when a question should go into this forum and 2. will it make it easier for people to find topics, then the forum deserves to exist.
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