[camgunz]

> 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.

[mistrial9]

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.