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by Stampo00 1437 days ago
I'm sure the tools are out there. But I'm at a point where I have more money than time for this. I empathize with the self-hosting ethos. I want a more decentralized internet. But I don't enjoy the setup and maintenance. I have previous little free time. I even spend much of it writing software, because I enjoy that. I don't enjoy being a sysadmim or my own personal devops.

I think I realized that in college when a friend tried to get me to run Gentoo as my first linux distro. I never made it to a desktop! I still run linux as my daily driver today, but I'm currently using Pop!_OS after having used Ubuntu since college. Because when I'm using my daily driver computer, I want to use it, not maintain it.
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camgunz 1437 days ago
> But I'm at a point where I have more money than time for this.

Sorry I'm not trying to stalk you across multiple threads, but this made me wonder if there's a market for contract SREs. Like you own a car but you take it for oil changes and tune-ups, you own a server but some admins SSH into it here and there when it needs fixing (puts an emphasis on encryption, maybe). I think it hasn't happened because there's not a huge difference between this and purchasing hosted services, but, maybe it's an interesting slightly different option.

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mistrial9 1437 days ago
a competitive engineering group I worked for ten+ years ago definitely had this exactly. Except "ssh from outside" was also carefully monitored, and the primary admin visited a few times a month in person. That computer admin was not the boss, it is a secure environment with a lot of top-down control. Engineers were occasionally terminated, while the executives rarely were. Its a real thing in the city.
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