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Is low-end hosting experience worth putting on a resume?

General Discussion by playersofia 13 replies 1.2K views
playersofia

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#11
space97 said:
Managed bare-metal fleet provisioning

I tried that variant, got asked if I used Terraform. Had to admit my provisioning stack is a bash script named "again.sh" that ssh's in and runs apt update. The humiliation was total and IPv6 could not save me.

ben20 said:
Prorated value only if you can produce uptime logs

I have logs. 847 days on the Raspbian pi-hole before an SD card corruption. Does that count as an SLA breach or a learning experience about wear leveling?

pieter_rtm

Member

#12
playersofia said:
Again.sh

This is why I just write "network administration" and let them ask. Straight path. Less words, same result.

Though I will say, if you have BGP sessions with your upstream, even over a tunnel, that is worth mentioning. Not "independent address space management." Say "multi-homed edge routing." Recruiters know "multi-homed" from AWS whitepapers. They do not know RIPE from a ripe mango.

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marcus_qc

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#13
playersofia said:
Got asked if I used Terraform

Brother I feel this in my soul. My "infrastructure as code" was a folder of SolusVM API calls I copy-pasted until they worked. The InterServer guy didn't care because he also had that folder. But if I'd interviewed somewhere with actual DevOps? Dead on arrival.

The cheap hosting experience got me in the door but I had to learn Ansible real fast once I saw how they actually provisioned at scale. Put the hobby stuff on there but be ready to bridge the gap.

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Hel

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Bare Metal Purist

#14
pieter_rtm said:
BGP sessions with your upstream

If it is a tunnel it is not BGP. It is a BGP-themed costume party. Real BGP needs real ASN, real prefixes, real routers that draw real watts. I have a Nokia 7750 in my flat. 340W. My landlord thinks I am running a grow light.

samuelmay said:
Hardware dont lie

This. Put the watts. Put the noise level in dB. Put that you drilled the rack rails yourself with a hand-me-down Bosch from your uncle. That is the truth and the truth is rare on resumes.

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