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Not sure if you're serious? It's like saying I should have to know how to lay asphalt to drive on the highway.

• sp332 14y ago
  Most people should at least know how to drive a car. Well I guess you could use public transportation and still get a large benefit out of the public highway system. But having your own car lets you do things public transport never will. And it would be ridiculous for someone to claim that learning to drive is too nerdy, even if it is pretty complicated and has a lot of arbitrary rules you have to go to classes to learn.
  • emperorcezar 14y ago
    Driving a car is like using a browser. It's not the infrastructure. Servers are infrastructure.
  • icebraining 14y ago
    Most people should at least know how to drive a car. Why? Sure, it lets you do some things that almost nothing else does, but you can usually work around them, and it imposes a great cost of both time and money. Why should one spend them? And likewise, learning how to run a web server on the public Internet (as opposed to a toy server on your LAN) requires a huge amount of time and knowledge, in terms of learning how to use the software, secure it, keep it spam-free, keeping up with the updates and security vulnerabilities, configuring DNS, etc. And at the end of the day, it can still be taken down by the hosting/VPS provider or ISP, just like your Wordpress.com blog. So, is it really worth it? I doubt it.