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judging by some of the other comments I think people believe sysadmins can and have been replaced by heroku, aws and such.

It's a recurring theme on HN. I'm a sysadmin and cringe when reading these rather common posts.

I would have to agree. But I would also have to agree that Heroku or AWS may have been a better choice than a 1&1 dedicated server in this particular instance.

However, Heroku and AWS are no substitute for good systems administration. They are good substitutes for data centers given signed and documented SLAs.

Developers are like any other person. "How hard can it be?"

As someone with a background in programming, it bothers me when your profession gets left out too :-)

Sometimes i think Sys. Admin profession needs a messiah like NNT(for finance) with perhaps the outspokenness/attitude of Zed Shah. That way, there would be a whole lot of increased awareness for the challenges involved in Systems administration.

I dream of that day..