My sentence is 'The user should be created on the server.' OR 'The user should be created in the server.' I usually use 'on' in all cases but I am wondering if the act of creation is better described by 'in': 'The user should be created in the server. Their details will be saved 'on' the server.' I did search for answers so I hope this is not a duplicate.
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Related question, File kept on/at the server?. – Jan 08 '16 at 10:36
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Yes, there is a scenario in which "in" would be better: the scenario of crawling inside a server in order to procreate someone you will establish as a user. Otherwise, the preposition English speakers use to describe establishing a user's network profile that a server houses is "on": the user is created "on" the server.
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:-) Thanks. It's just that so many people seem to use 'in', one begins to think perhaps one is missing something. – user154424 Jan 08 '16 at 10:28
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I was going to suggest that if you spilled your coffee into the server, and someone said Where's your coffee?, it would be perfectly correct to say in the server. – WS2 Jan 08 '16 at 11:08
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@WS2 : Yes, that would certainly be "in" the server. I only hope you didn't accidentally burn those in there who were procreating. – Benjamin Harman Jan 08 '16 at 11:13