Comment by trey-jones

I might need some perspective. Every time I read one of these I'm just shaking my head, and yes the arguments are Less Power, Less Control, but also SysAdmin is me. That is my identity, and the part of the job that I like the most. I solve problems with configuration before code. So I hate to think that I'm becoming obsolete, of course. I also don't think that I am, because I do think that my way has some clear and definite advantages over eg. Netlify. I also think that "my site is free as in beer and also lightning fast" generally transposes to "my site doesn't have any traffic". Am I deluded? I recognize that I have a clear bias, but even stepping back, I do think that even if some don't need a VPS (or server) anymore, that there is still room for my ilk in the tech world.