> Outside of the HN bubble, it's a rare breed and it cost a lot more than your traditional linux admin, that you probably already have anyway.
Strongly disagree. It's much easier to find people with experience deploying to particular cloud services than it is to find someone who knows how to setup, managed, and maintain a bare metal Linux system from scratch. It's also much easier to teach a cloud solution than to teach someone everything to know about bootstrapping and maintaining Linux servers in a safe and secure manner.
> On the other end, setuping a linux box for the common tasks (web server, cache, db, etc) never takes me more than a day.
That's ignoring all of the future overhead of maintaining it and keeping up with updates. Not to mention the required documentation and knowledge sharing to help others understand your custom system so the bus factor isn't 1.
It's always easy to get started with one-off systems, but that's missing the bulk of the work.
Strongly disagree. It's much easier to find people with experience deploying to particular cloud services than it is to find someone who knows how to setup, managed, and maintain a bare metal Linux system from scratch. It's also much easier to teach a cloud solution than to teach someone everything to know about bootstrapping and maintaining Linux servers in a safe and secure manner.
> On the other end, setuping a linux box for the common tasks (web server, cache, db, etc) never takes me more than a day.
That's ignoring all of the future overhead of maintaining it and keeping up with updates. Not to mention the required documentation and knowledge sharing to help others understand your custom system so the bus factor isn't 1.
It's always easy to get started with one-off systems, but that's missing the bulk of the work.