Ask HN: Cannot find a website where you could hire sysadmins short term

2 points·junto··6 comments

I recently saw a cool website on HN where you could hire sysadmins for small bits of work. HN Search is failing me. I can't seem to find it anymore. Can anyone remember what it was?

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Today I wrote about something similar:

http://blog.steve.org.uk/it_is_unfortunate_that_many_compani...

If you did (re)find the site please do post it as a comment. I like the idea of remote-sysadmin, and did ponder the value of advertising myself for it, but I couldn't quite believe there would be a regular market for it.

I did not see that but if you find it, please post it here. I'd like to know as well.

Yep, it looks really cool. I forgot to bookmark it. It looks like it was a curated list of sysadmins that you could hire for short term min projects but also retainers as well too I think.

I need to move a WordPress blog from Hostgator to a VPS, but I'm not too hot on setting that all up. I can follow the Digital Ocean community guides ok, but I'm worried I'm missing something. Better to have someone who knows what they are doing. I don't trust people on odesk or elance.

Didn't see the website but give me a shout if you want and i'll try to help you depending on your requirements :).

Btw. why would you trust more someone on a website or HN over someone on Odesk or Freelance?

I tend to look at HNer comment history. You can usually tell quite quickly if someone seems sound or not.

I also don't like the ODesk / freelancer sign up process (credit cards etc).

I see and yes that works for HN but i doubt it will work for most of the other sites then. Buy me a .lb of coffee and i'll move your blog :)

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