I've never seen anyone demonize or shame having pet servers, if anything people on tech news sites write about their pet servers constantly (understandably, it'

I've never seen anyone demonize or shame having pet servers, if anything people on tech news sites write about their pet servers constantly (understandably, it's fun!) Just like you're not going to make all your furniture by hand when you start a business but instead just buy whatever works from Ikea, likewise you make a more conscious decision to build or buy (as TFA touched on) based on the constraints of the business. And sometimes a business, for compliance reasons for example, may choose to keep their servers in-house, in which case you could potentially be a sysadmin.