Re: A Small Organisation Server as a Debian Pure Blend
On Wed, 2020-11-18 at 19:48 +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Wed, 2020-11-18 at 11:06 +0000, John Lines wrote:
>
> > I believe/hope it should be possible to this type of thing another
> > way,
> > and that a technical sysadmin should not be needed.
>
> You would still need a sysadmin to do the hardware, OS and software
> setup, fixes, tweaks, replacement, etc.
>
At that level the paid sysadmin would be the hosting provider from
which the host was rented, which might be Amazon, or a independent.
Within the system, apt automatic updates seem to be doing a pretty good
job now. The tricky part is major version upgrades, which Debian does
pretty well - I think - although the system I am writing this on was
installed with wheezy and has been updated through all the releases
since, and is now running bullseye, I usually - like now, jump to a
testing release before the freeze. I have done upgrades from one stable
release to another, and think they should be OK.
Most people running on Windows used to just buy a new server every
major release, which kept everybody (hardware sales and Microsoft)
quite happy
> > I have set up systems on AWS for myself, but it is much too big a
> > barrier for anybody non technical.
>
> I was suggesting that AWS themselves would be the right folks to do
> this, since they have the scale to distribute the sysadmin/etc costs
> over many many customers in order to make it affordable enough.
>
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