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Small, Virtual Sysadmin Services?

Posted by Cliff on from the half-of-a-sysadmin dept.

treesim asks: "I work for a tiny research company of five employees, with a growing need for a system administrator. However, our needs are unlikely to ever require a full time person, so I'm wondering if small, offsite sysadmin services exist (something like virtual assistants, since the larger corporate-sized outfits are just too much). On one hand, this seems an obvious niche to be filled by entrepreneurial moonlighters, but there are a ton of questions regarding trust. Nonetheless, we already have good relationships with offsite bookkeeping and payroll services. Am I just being naive, or does anyone have experience with outsourcing small-scale sysadmin tasks?"

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  1. Sure they do! by Tackhead · · Score: 5, Funny
    > However, our needs are unlikely to ever require a full time person, so I'm wondering if small, offsite sysadmin services exist

    Sure they do!

    Send an email to these guys, and tell them they're interested in outsourcing your system adminstration tasks. I did, and they got me set up in a jiffy.

    By the way, what was your username again? >clickity-click<

  2. You Can Afford a Sysadmin! by nlindstrom · · Score: 0, Funny

    Just hire a full-time sysadmin. They're the cheapest of the cheap, and will gladly work an eighty-hour week for just a bag of Fritos and a can of Mountain Dew. Sysadmins even cost less than your janitorial service!

  3. Re:Yes! by tomhudson · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sure! Just tell me your ip and root password!
    127.0.0.1, admin, admin.
  4. Re:Yes! by Carnildo · · Score: 2, Funny

    127.0.0.1, admin, admin.

    Whaddya know, it worked!

    --
    "They redundantly repeated themselves over and over again incessantly without end ad infinitum" -- ibid.