Just curious why your interested in consolidating to a single vps? In other words, what are the determing factors? Price, peformance, complexity?
Now opinion; it really makes me sad that the world has moved this way, that developers are now expected to be sys admins. I do it myself. I'm a pretty good developer, but I'm no sys admin. I feel like sys admin as a profession has been devalued to an astonishing degree in recent years. I blame the easy and cheap availability of cloud services like linode and digital ocean and developer moving in mass to procuring and provisioning their own servers.
I'm to blame as well, but a good sys admin brings A LOT to the table. Keeping configuration sane and secure, keeping things patched. I've worked with a few who are really good, I miss having good sys admins when the job doesn't have them.
Now opinion; it really makes me sad that the world has moved this way, that developers are now expected to be sys admins. I do it myself. I'm a pretty good developer, but I'm no sys admin. I feel like sys admin as a profession has been devalued to an astonishing degree in recent years. I blame the easy and cheap availability of cloud services like linode and digital ocean and developer moving in mass to procuring and provisioning their own servers.
I'm to blame as well, but a good sys admin brings A LOT to the table. Keeping configuration sane and secure, keeping things patched. I've worked with a few who are really good, I miss having good sys admins when the job doesn't have them.