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If you ask your university nicely they may provide rack space for you. Universities love when students take initiative and build/maintain servers. My universit
by more_corn 3y ago
If you ask your university nicely they may provide rack space for you.
Universities love when students take initiative and build/maintain servers. My university had a student apprentice program where students provided technical expertise to departments as a work study program. And my colleague in the program had a deal with the CS department where they hosted his game server for him. Since he was learning valuable server administration skills and working with other students they approved it.
It’s an easier sell if you ask to put it in the DMZ and if there’s some benefit for other students.
- mattl 3y agoFew 16 year olds are at university?
- sceadu 3y agoHe makes a comment about graduating and moving to university in the blog post.
- mattl 3y agoI don’t know about Switzerland but that’s at least a few years away?
- tehbeard 3y agoThen it just shows they've got better planning timescales than most clients I deal with.. (so much last minute bullshit right now with Christmas next week...)
- mattl 3y agoUgh. Tell me about it.
- varun_ch 3y agoI'm in the graduating class of 2025, which is closer than it appears.
- nh2 3y agoIf you'd like to meet some likeminded people reasonably-nearby, feel invited to the Zurich Nix meetup [1] or the largest Haskell conference [2]! [1]: https://www.meetup.com/nix-zurich/ https://www.meetup.com/nix-zurich/ [2]: https://zfoh.ch/zurihac2024/ https://zfoh.ch/zurihac2024/
- varun_ch 3y agoInteresting, I'll take a look. Thanks!
- SoftTalker 3y agoIn years past if you knew someone it might have been easy to get a server plugged in and on the network with a public IP at a university. Maybe in an office or lab somewhere on campus. Nobody would likely know, or care to ask any questions. Today, they are more and more locked down, everything is run by "enterprise" IT, you need to submit forms and get approvals for every new device with a public IP address, etc. Anything unknown that pops up on the network will be automatically blocked until they know what it is and who is responsible for it.