Seattle here. Took RHEL 9 RHCSA in March. The container stuff is Podman basics, not Docker. You need to know how to start a containerized service and make it persistent. Honestly? It maps fine to hosting if you are running any modern control panels. cPanel and Plesk both containerize some services now.
The bigger change is Stratis and VDO for storage. If you are old school LVM-only like me, study that part extra.
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Tak, to prawda. W Wrocławiu certyfikat to tylko filtr HR. Prawdziwy test to zawsze praktyczne zadanie. Mój obecny pracodawca dał mi zepsuty serwer na Hetzner auction I kazał przywrócić działanie w 2 godziny. Cert nie pomógłby mi wtedy, ale doświadczenie tak.
LPIC-1 kosztuje ~200 EUR, RHCSA ~400 USD. Dla małego hostingu w Polsce LPIC jest lepszym wyborem.
In France is same. The RHCSA is for big corporate with Red Hat subscription. For OVHcloud or small host in Lyon, LPIC is sufficient. I see many job ads for "technicien support hosting" and they write "LPIC-1 or equivalent experience."
But the price difference is real. LPIC-1 exam is 190 EUR in Lyon testing center. RHCSA is more and you must go to Paris or do online with bad hour for timezone.
Chicago colo tech here. I hire L1-L2 for bare metal racking and basic troubleshooting. I do not care which cert you have. I care that you have one, because it shows you can finish something.
My interview: I give you a SuperMicro IPMI that is not responding and a drive showing predictive failure in MegaCLI. Walk me through it. The cert gets you the interview. The hands-on gets you the job.
RHCSA, LPIC, even CompTIA Linux+. Just have something.
Thank you all for answers. I think I will start with LPIC-1 because cheaper, then maybe RHCSA later if I want to move to bigger company. I am in UK so both are available here.
One more question: is there good practice lab for LPIC that is not just multiple choice? I want hands-on too.
Spin up a Debian VM and break it deliberately. That is your lab. LPIC-1 objectives are public. Work through them on a machine you have snapshotted.
I used Linux Academy years ago but they got bought and changed. Now I hear people use A Cloud Guru or just build their own. The LPI website has links to some partner labs but they vary in quality.
My marriage ended. My server with 4 year uptime survived. Priorities.
LPI has official practice tests through their partner network. They are multiple choice only, which is the format of the actual LPIC-1 exam. There is no performance component.
If you want hands-on prep for LPIC, you are building it yourself. My method: two VMs, one "clean" reference, one "broken" that I sabotage. Snapshot before you break. The LPI objectives list is your syllabus.
For RHCSA hands-on prep, Red Hat has official labs but they are expensive. You can replicate most with CentOS Stream 9 or AlmaLinux 9 VMs.
Melbourne here. Can confirm. cPanel's jailed shell environments and some of their newer backup services run in Podman containers on RHEL-based systems. If you are managing shared hosting at any scale, you will hit this.
I have both LPIC-2 and RHCSA. The RHCSA prepared me better for the container troubleshooting I actually do at 2 AM when a customer's WordPress backup job fails because the Podman volume ran out of space.
Also: mtr to Singapore from Melbourne is 120ms stable. mtr to your NOC at 2 AM is infinite when you are asleep. Cert won't fix your sleep schedule.
Singapore hosting market is very competitive. Many local providers and big ones like Vultr, OVHcloud, AWS. I see job ads here asking for RHCSA specifically if the role involves any government or finance sector hosting. LPIC for general web hosting.
I have neither. Self-taught, 8 years. Now considering RHCSA because I want to move into finance sector colo work. The name matters for compliance audits.
Tokyo here. In Japan, RHCSA is very respected. Many companies use Red Hat for enterprise hosting. LPIC exists but less known. I have RHCE and it opened many doors.
For hosting specifically, many Japanese companies use CentOS or AlmaLinux now, so RHCSA knowledge transfers directly. The certification from Red Hat has brand power in Asia that LPIC does not match. I use https://almalinux.org for that.
Price is higher though. Exam in Tokyo is around 55000 JPY. LPIC-1 is about 25000 JPY.
