Your post is a "recommend me something to do this" rather than a "I have this specific issue".
One of the problems with these types of questions is that they attract "lists of things" answers which are mostly only backed up by links to external sites. Eventually these links rot away and the answers never get any proper love to keep things fresh.
The chastisement was probably unfair because John Ranger did attempt to summarise the linked landing page content, however the question probably should have been closed according to [0] to deter more link-only answers:
One of the problems with these types of questions is that they attract "lists of things" answers which are mostly only backed up by links to external sites. Eventually these links rot away and the answers never get any proper love to keep things fresh.
Early on SO/SF/SU tried to combat this:
http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/11/qa-is-hard-lets-go-sho...
The chastisement was probably unfair because John Ranger did attempt to summarise the linked landing page content, however the question probably should have been closed according to [0] to deter more link-only answers:
[0[: http://serverfault.com/help/on-topic
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Product, service, or learning material recommendations
YMMV whether you think this is fair nor not, but it's the site/network rules.