Hey salaams, Mohammad here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Used to write under the name Momekh. Now Momekh is a consultancy and coaching business. That’s at momekh.com. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
That bit possibly was the obvious part.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But what is this Server boy thingy majiggy? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is my attempt at learning some sysadmin so I can manage servers for effectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Why? So I can save money. Lots of it actually. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you can learn sysadmin, you can manage a VPS that costs 10 times less. Yes, 10 times. That’s not an exaggeration. That’s actually pretty exact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Previous server: US$ 68 \/ month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
New server: US $ 6 \/ month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Previous server was slightly less specked than the new one, but costed me 10 times more. Why? Because I didn’t know sysadmin. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
SysAdmin is System Administration, mostly of a server. At least in this context. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Why am I comfortable now with learning and doing dangerous-sounding stuff like SSH’ing into the server, running CLI commands that don’t ask, “are you sure, this will absolutely destroy all that you’ve built”. None of that. That’s dangerous, right? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
So why now? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Or rather, how come now you can, whereas previously you couldnt? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Well, about that…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
AI Shay Eye<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It’s about them AI’s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Seriously, when it comes down to it, the reason I was paying almost 70 bucks a month to the previous server host (I talk about who they are and all that here<\/a>) was because of their absolutely fantastic support. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Live chat saved me a ton. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Now I can have that chat with AI. I use AI Studio for that, with ChatGPT being there for a second opinion. But for all code-related, and subsequently sysadmin related stuff, it’s Google’s AI Studio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So my AI chat has saved 60 bucks a month, Alhumdulillah. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I have moved the server, and more about that here. <\/p>\n\n\n\n You interested in learning and following my journey of figuring out sysadmin, how to manage machines on them interwebs, and making a living doing so? Subscribe to the Serverboy newsletter<\/span><\/strong> (in the work yo!) \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n\n\n\n Newsletter on updates, server set ups, optimizing websites, building on WordPress (and OpenSource), and selling related services<\/p>\n\n\n\nSub to Server boy n\/l<\/h2>\n\n\n\n