<div dir="ltr"><div>With the whole transition to libera.chat for irc and taking some time off from work, I've taken to hanging out there a bit, and this is a common thing I'm seeing in the #networking chat. I'm seeing a lot of devs showing up in #networking asking for hosting/sysadmin stuff lots, ala "how to make apache do x", or "how do I automate my servers", which I find weird as that's sysadmin stuff normally (to me). Oddly enough it's a pretty diverse crowd of folks that are kinda hybrids, done networking, done sysadmin, some are php/web devs, etc, but lots of system-centric stuff so it tends to work out for info seekers. I suspect if I went into #sysadmin or like, they'd know nothing of networking, but #networking tends to come from diverse enough roots they do this stuff too, or did at one point at least.</div><div><br></div><div>Moral is, there's a lot of crossover these days, and folks need to know some dev, some sysadmin, and some networking. The line blurs, but people can't just be like "well, I only do mssql or active directory" anymore, they're replaceable with shell scripts. I've done unix/linux, some dev, some dba, some windoze, everything between along with a strong focus and experience in networking, and it's paid dividends as I figure out what others don't as a result.</div><div><br></div><div>Comparing to the OSI model of networking, I work mostly layer 1-7 up, but most dev/app/sysadmins work layer 7 down, and really have no idea below around layer 5 or so, much to their detriment. Best these days to be well versed across the board to some extent. Take a ccna class online, even if you don't get the cert, you'll probably understand things a lot more to make your life easier.<br></div><div><br></div><div>-mb</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jan 7, 2022 at 5:11 PM Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss <<a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
<br>
Hi,<br>
<br>
I've watched more than a few of NetworkChuck's videos. Here he is on a <br>
programmer's channel talking about programmers learning networking. <br>
I've always thought all web programmers have some Linux skills, and <br>
maybe that is not what he is talking about.<br>
<br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlN-vMF13QY&t=0s" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlN-vMF13QY&t=0s</a><br>
<br>
How does this work for hosting admin? Is there the same demand in the <br>
hosting admin niche? If so what exactly should one know and what types <br>
of jobs can they get?<br>
<br>
He mentions Python - is that the programming language to know for server <br>
automation? He also mentioned Perl. I thought Perl was/is dead?<br>
<br>
I'm a PHP developer and find a lot of hosting tools such as Plesk and <br>
ISPConfig are written in PHP and use MySQL.<br>
<br>
Your Thoughts?<br>
<br>
Thanks!!<br>
<br>
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