This is a great question. I feel like this is something a lot of people who aren't full-time sysadmins just end up learning through the school of hard knocks. T

This is a great question. I feel like this is something a lot of people who aren't full-time sysadmins just end up learning through the school of hard knocks. There are tons of great "learn to code" sites and classes, but the "learn to sysadmin" side of things seems to be kind of underserved. FWIW, when I decided to try to learn this seriously, I started out by just setting up a Linode, opening up their tutorials† and setting myself some tasks. But I feel like there has to be a better way than that. † I think these two: https://library.linode.com/using-linux/administration-basics https://library.linode.com/using-linux/administration-basics https://library.linode.com/lamp-guides/debian-7-wheezy https://library.linode.com/lamp-guides/debian-7-wheezy