How many of you do systems administration in addition to programming

#1

Post by imrobotmaker » Tue, Apr 15, 2008, 2:49 AM UTC

I am curious to know if you do your own systems administration or do you rely on hosted servers or friends to maintain your servers.

Please don't list personal computers with development environments you installed but actually full production servers where you run your code ?

I am only curious because I have always been curious about number of programmers who are also systems administrators or their application servers.

thank you all :)

Re: How many of you do systems administration in addition to programming

#2

Post by graywh » Tue, Apr 15, 2008, 3:34 AM UTC

I work at a research university/hospital and manage my own servers for my department. Each server runs Debian or Ubuntu, Apache, MySQL.

I can't imagine not being able to admin my own servers. That's part of what being a hacker is all about.

Re: How many of you do systems administration in addition to programming

#3

Post by noodle » Tue, Apr 15, 2008, 3:35 AM UTC

i know how to do administration, but i prefer to pay someone else to handle that stuff. its more economical, to me.

or maybe i'm just bad at it and do it slower than everyone else. i can't tell.

i also don't have any app that runs more than 100 concurrent users, and i develop on my own local servers. i deploy on hosted servers. for reference.

Re: How many of you do systems administration in addition to programming

#4

Post by ubudesign » Tue, Apr 15, 2008, 6:31 AM UTC

I manage my own servers. it took a while to get it to a point where you could realy call it production servers. and I wouldn't have done it if I could have found hosting services that offered what I needed for a good price. but now that I have it's not bad.

The best alternative would be managed private servers.