no, it clearly is not.
HestiaCP aims to be a tool for rather seasoned admins enabling them to handle regular tasks in an easy way via GUI or predefined shell scripts. also giving additional access to unprivileged users to take over some of the easier configurations themselves.
with all that it tries to only interfere with the system as much as needed so it isn’t in the way for custom setups or advanced configurations.
while I totally agree that everyone has to start somewhere I am afraid that HestiaCP simply is the wrong choice here then. it is not and most likely never will be the right choice for linux/admin beginners.
I understand that the GUI and reduced amount of options to choose from might suggest otherwise, but that’s a wrong impression then. sorry. and again, nothing wrong about being a beginner, however we do not aim for being a starters tool or replacing knowledge after all. and we don’t care much for any ranking.
that said, I also agree that howtos/tutorials can be of value, but this is rather something other admins are free to provide via forum or even as a pull request to be added as feature and so on.
for ioncube in the end it is as easy as:
- download the full package from their page
- put the correct *.so for each php version somewhere accessible
- reference it in an ini-file as module to be loaded
- restart php and be done
