Problem being, the only people who know how to do that... were running websites in 2004. You don't see distributed systems on owned hardware even being proposed these days, unless your email address has DOD or MIL in it somewhere. And colleges are teaching the CLOUUUUUUUD, not Big Iron.
Yea, I know virtual is all the rage these days, but if you can't do cloud because all those services won't take you as a customer, well then, what else are you doing to do?
I got my CS degree in 2020, and distributed hosting was never even offered as a class, much less discussed as a hypothetical. I don't even have a ballpark on how big a web site has to get before it will bog down a typical linux apache/php/javascript server running directly on the server hardware, not virtualized.
I've long suspected that virtualization started to take off because server hardware was getting so powerfull dedicating one server to a single task like HTTP hosting was like squashing a mosquito with a 25 lb sledge.
The Computer Science program I went to didn't offer anything web related as a core subject. As an elective you could take a class in either PHP or .NET, but that was as far as web related content went. Nothing server related at all, and minimal training in linux command line. On the whole the CS program at my school was almost entirely about programming, and the sysadmin side of CS was never really discussed much. This was something I brought up with my advisor, and he said that ABET certification drove the courses, and there wasn't room for anything sysadmin side.
There is no "sysadmin" side of Computer Science. You'll want a MIS degree or something similar that is more of a vocational education than a scientific discipline.
A bit of a tangent and not related to hosting but I find it interesting how they all preach the cloud, yet anyone working in IT who has to keep privacy as their highest good does not go with the cloud. I noticed this at work.
No one likes the cloud, no one wants to go with a cloud solution to the point where esoteric software is preferred to the cloud software which might be better but is harder to justify. Kind of happy people are this based at work.
Problem being, the only people who know how to do that... were running websites in 2004. You don't see distributed systems on owned hardware even being proposed these days, unless your email address has DOD or MIL in it somewhere. And colleges are teaching the CLOUUUUUUUD, not Big Iron.
Yea, I know virtual is all the rage these days, but if you can't do cloud because all those services won't take you as a customer, well then, what else are you doing to do?
I got my CS degree in 2020, and distributed hosting was never even offered as a class, much less discussed as a hypothetical. I don't even have a ballpark on how big a web site has to get before it will bog down a typical linux apache/php/javascript server running directly on the server hardware, not virtualized.
I've long suspected that virtualization started to take off because server hardware was getting so powerfull dedicating one server to a single task like HTTP hosting was like squashing a mosquito with a 25 lb sledge.
Why would a CS program teach web hosting? Or does CS mean something else besides Computer Science?
The Computer Science program I went to didn't offer anything web related as a core subject. As an elective you could take a class in either PHP or .NET, but that was as far as web related content went. Nothing server related at all, and minimal training in linux command line. On the whole the CS program at my school was almost entirely about programming, and the sysadmin side of CS was never really discussed much. This was something I brought up with my advisor, and he said that ABET certification drove the courses, and there wasn't room for anything sysadmin side.
There is no "sysadmin" side of Computer Science. You'll want a MIS degree or something similar that is more of a vocational education than a scientific discipline.
Odd, all of my courses pushed distributed hosting, load balancing, cloud hosting, SaaS, HaaS, all of it. And that was a decade earlier.
A bit of a tangent and not related to hosting but I find it interesting how they all preach the cloud, yet anyone working in IT who has to keep privacy as their highest good does not go with the cloud. I noticed this at work.
No one likes the cloud, no one wants to go with a cloud solution to the point where esoteric software is preferred to the cloud software which might be better but is harder to justify. Kind of happy people are this based at work.