Comment ISP Certification Course? (Score 1) 124
Unfortunately I find that too many "do-it-yourselfers" are leasing dialups and servers from hosting companies and reselling these dialups and server space without really knowing anything about server work.
The use of server tools such as plesk makes being an admin for a server an easy job for someone who's never even logged into a shell.
A class or certification in ISP/Web Server management and server security would greatly benefit from using this type of reading. I've got a friend of mine who is this type of "point and click admin" and he's had to move servers twice now because the leased server became compromised and he had no idea how to fix it. Each time he did learn how to keep the problem from happening again though.
The use of server tools such as plesk makes being an admin for a server an easy job for someone who's never even logged into a shell.
A class or certification in ISP/Web Server management and server security would greatly benefit from using this type of reading. I've got a friend of mine who is this type of "point and click admin" and he's had to move servers twice now because the leased server became compromised and he had no idea how to fix it. Each time he did learn how to keep the problem from happening again though.
