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If you have a good pre-existing network of contacts (or have a modicum of networking skills/are willing to do a bit of legwork) I’ve found there’s a constant de
by lhl 6y ago
If you have a good pre-existing network of contacts (or have a modicum of networking skills/are willing to do a bit of legwork) I’ve found there’s a constant demand for “low-end” sysadmin/devops work for small businesses - usually they just need someone to be on call in case their AWS/virtual hosting/or Shopify what have you go down. You could probably gather about a half dozen or so of those contracts, set up some alerts, and spend no more than a few hours a week on average of work and pull in enough to cover all your bills.
Like others, I’d recommend looking into FIRE principles at least, particularly the idea of Safe Withdrawal Rate - basically every $25-30 you have invested = $1/yr you can spend for the rest of your life.
- mikeytown2 6y agoIf they're all hosted on aws you'll have a bad day if it ever goes down.
- sudosysgen 6y agoYes, in this position you'd best find a way to diversify some of them or move them to, say, a Proxmox instance.
- exikyut 6y agoWell, if you battle-test the "what happens if unexpected reboot [edit: or network loss, or API failure]" side of things for EC2, and validate simulated resource failure for the other bits... wouldn't it basically amount to figuring out where AWS's *real* status dashboard is this month (eg, specific Twitter or HN thread) and mass-mailing realtime "there, there"s until everything mostly comes back up by itself?