Installing rack servers and setting up services to run a site used to be a sort of rite-of-passage 15-20 years ago, but that time period of the web was differen

Installing rack servers and setting up services to run a site used to be a sort of rite-of-passage 15-20 years ago, but that time period of the web was different. Still, I would consider basic familiarity with the infrastructure necessary also today. Increasing hardware performance relative to task load created the rational for virtualization. Virtualization also turned out to be rational with respect to consistency, convenience, maintenance, and so on. At that point, outsourcing to a cloud can be rational. But fewer people get hands-on experience with the infrastructure, and it sounds like many consider it almost mythical. For example, realizing the amount of work that can be done in 4U today. What does amazon charge for 96 cores and 256GB?