2011/11/14 Hetz Ben Hamo <het...@gmail.com>: > Hi, > I'll give you one: Supporting hosting customers. > Explanation: there are over 40 businesses here in Israel which provides VPS > and dedicated server renting solutions. > Most of those businesses (including mine) provide the machine to the > customers as "unmanaged", > which means: the support you'll get relates only to network (if your > VPS/Server) can communicate to and from the server > The other part of support: shutting down/restart/pause/reset the server. > Anything else - you're on your own. You can purchase a bank of hours for > support or you can get emergency support for a higher price. > There are, of course, some hosting businesses which will give you managed > service, but in most case I would strongly recommend to get a freelance who > will do the job for the client. > Why? because they *SUCK AT IT* ! spreading root privileges all over the > place, changing permissions of directories and files to 777, opening the > internal firewall (if it exists, most of the time it's not) to everyone+his > dog, and other nonsense stuff, and I'm also talking about the *BIG* > providers which are also ISP - they suck, period! > I think that this niche is mostly empty and people can get some > jobs/contracts with such customers. > If anyone want to register himself, I have a neutral forum for that. see > here: http://hosts-forum.com/index.php > Hope this helps, > Hetz
I can vouch for this. I am not a CS major and I consider myself a Linux amateur, but I have worked supporting various Linux servers for locals. Of course, I was making nowhere near the level of income that Shahar discusses on his blog, experience wins hands-down in that department. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il