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"10-15 hours of my own time managing a server" That's a lot of time. What is the most time consuming task when managing your own dedicated server? I thought t
by dgregd 15y ago
"10-15 hours of my own time managing a server"
That's a lot of time.
What is the most time consuming task when managing your own dedicated server? I thought that it takes max 1h monthly to run "apt-get upgrade".
- cschmidt 15y agoI think he's including the time to learn what he's doing. If you have no clue then it is going to take more than a few hours to learn everything. Sure, once you're competent and everything is set up, it won't take much time. It is just getting to that point that could take a lot of time.
- asto 15y agoCost of learning should be amortised over one's lifetime. It iwill work out to a handful of pennies or dollars on a per-project basis.
- cschmidt 15y agoTrue, but it is more a matter of where you choose to invest your time. Hosting and sysadmin work have nothing to do with my startup's value add, and I personally can't add much value by doing it myself.
- Vitaly 15y agoRun uPgades, monitor servers, especially free sPace etc. when u upgrade stuff breaks sometimes, write installation scripts, fix them when new version of something comes out. Etc etc etc. we run about a dozen different projects in multiple configurations and since the move to Heroku I'd say we saved amour 20 monthly hours.