Victor Leigh Posted January 15, 2013 Share Posted January 15, 2013 Ideally, I think a webmaster should also be knowledgeable about server administration. Of course, this is not always possible. A webmaster can be good at developing a site from the aspects of marketing and promotion but he may not have the knowhow and experience to fiddle with things under the hood, so to say. So what do you think? How much does a webmaster need to know about server administration? Can he, for example, make do without knowing anything at all about about what's going on under his site? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simplysidy Posted January 15, 2013 Share Posted January 15, 2013 I think it depends on the kind of role the webmaster plays. I mean, as long as I was only doing the management of my and my clients websites on the hosts (shared hosting), there was nothing beyond to know about other than the cPanel or the WHM. But now that our (me and my friends') social site is online and we are hoping to opt in for a VPN or even a dedicated host, I guess, it would really help if anyone knows the server well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
webdevuser Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 Ideally, I think a webmaster should also be knowledgeable about server administration. Of course, this is not always possible. A webmaster can be good at developing a site from the aspects of marketing and promotion but he may not have the knowhow and experience to fiddle with things under the hood, so to say. So what do you think? How much does a webmaster need to know about server administration? Can he, for example, make do without knowing anything at all about about what's going on under his site? Nope, ask Nathan about his experience with not knowing what I could do with the Test Bed, I'm sure he freaked out during a couple seconds... (I could delete his whole website in mere seconds, than I got his password, which I'm sure he is using everywhere and I connected on forum his account, wrote a small love message in the Admin section) =P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victor Leigh Posted January 16, 2013 Author Share Posted January 16, 2013 Nope, ask Nathan about his experience with not knowing what I could do with the Test Bed, I'm sure he freaked out during a couple seconds... (I could delete his whole website in mere seconds, than I got his password, which I'm sure he is using everywhere and I connected on forum his account, wrote a small love message in the Admin section) =P Whoa, sounds like a horror story. From what you have just said, every webmaster should take a course in Web Security 101 before getting started. Otherwise they are leaving themselves open to abuse. Right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarryLejieg Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 I think this depends on the scale of the websites. If it is a large website that requires a powerful server and it has a lot of content and many updates per day, then it will be impossible for the webmaster to deal with both server administration and web development. In this case I think that is completely unnecessary. However, even if it is not a large scale website, I think web development skills are more important than server administration since for most of the stuff about server administration you can ask your hosting provider and they can complete them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alania Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 It varies, if you ask me. There are some situations that he knows either less or more. I believe it relates to the whole "freedom of privacy" aspect of the internet. It's hard for a webmaster to maintain everything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martinsx Posted December 24, 2018 Share Posted December 24, 2018 I'm of the opinion that at least the basic knowledge of server administration should be know by any webmaster in order to give him or her the basic information on how some things works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diolola456 Posted December 26, 2018 Share Posted December 26, 2018 How much does a webmaster need to know about server administration? I think maybe broad knowledge in order to monetize all the details or transaction that can be done also webmaster need to know the details about the done by the administrator in order to get a specific data that can help the system or the company. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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