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> The VPS will probably teach you a whole lot more real knowledge than a home server due to it tackling many of the real world problems that come up in tech. I

> The VPS will probably teach you a whole lot more real knowledge than a home server due to it tackling many of the real world problems that come up in tech. I'm curious why you think this. Plenty of jobs are around that involve physical disks, RAID, SANs, etc. Plenty more require knowledge of on-site networks or hypervisors. There are many, many things you can't do on a VPS or similar.

citizenpaul 3y ago
I think its not really an opinion that the hardware/server side of things is becoming commoditized. People in charge don't really care what the hardware is unless they need several data centers worth of servers. They would rather pay to just outsource that to AWS/GCP/Azure. Which means those jobs are going to be less numerous in the future and the pay will continue to drop as the job becomes mostly a paint by numbers type of thing. I could be wrong but I don't think there is a bright future in it. I would not recommend it to anyone except for a hobby. Like I said though sometimes the cool/wonder factor is the benefit to get a person interested in something though. It is easy to lock yourself out of a remote server, at least for junior people. When you have to think about those things you learn to plan and think things through before you act.
- averageRoyalty 3y ago
  I think what you're saying 1) was very true 5 years ago and 2) is likely accurate to your part of the world. The story of the mid sized SV company moving back to hardware is becoming more and more common. Outside of that US tech bubble, millions of companies still use data centres regularly. Now if you're providing advice to someone in the US tech industry around the SV area (West I think?) maybe that's valid, but thee are many countries and millions of companies where those skills are useful. The OP is in Sweden, where that may or may not reflect your experience.

citizenpaul 3y ago

I think its not really an opinion that the hardware/server side of things is becoming commoditized. People in charge don't really care what the hardware is unless they need several data centers worth of servers. They would rather pay to just outsource that to AWS/GCP/Azure. Which means those jobs are going to be less numerous in the future and the pay will continue to drop as the job becomes mostly a paint by numbers type of thing. I could be wrong but I don't think there is a bright future in it. I would not recommend it to anyone except for a hobby. Like I said though sometimes the cool/wonder factor is the benefit to get a person interested in something though. It is easy to lock yourself out of a remote server, at least for junior people. When you have to think about those things you learn to plan and think things through before you act.

averageRoyalty 3y ago
I think what you're saying 1) was very true 5 years ago and 2) is likely accurate to your part of the world. The story of the mid sized SV company moving back to hardware is becoming more and more common. Outside of that US tech bubble, millions of companies still use data centres regularly. Now if you're providing advice to someone in the US tech industry around the SV area (West I think?) maybe that's valid, but thee are many countries and millions of companies where those skills are useful. The OP is in Sweden, where that may or may not reflect your experience.