Get your red hat linux web administration courses. If you can find any. there seems to be a lot of demand for capable web administrators. Its quite a difficult job to get in to though because they require experience and its difficult to get experience as a web admin outside of being a web admin.
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Sometimes you have to come in sideways! If you have generally good Linux/sysadmin skills then you
should be able to pick up new skills. Having a good knowledge of even stuff like LAMP is a start. Granted not everyone uses Apache, but they all work in essentially the same way. Same for MySQL or any other DB.
You see all the technolgies they use these days with linux in enterprise? Its not just running apache and php and sql any more, its application delivery and clustering and all other types of technologies. Often these technologies are not available for home use, so it can be difficult to learn about them outside of the job.
Again, there will likely be open source alternatives for things like clustering, virtualisation and the like. They all work in the same way you just need to get to grips. I have found a lot of enterprise stuff tends to be expensive support-based software rather than anything that is radically different to what is available for free.
yeah I've to pay for these myself, the course is £212 for Linux essentials
I might phone them, because I don't really need to go into 'what is a computer' and 'hardware, harddrives' etc
just looked at the red hat courses, £1600 for the Linux admin, yikes!
There are a plethora of linux sysadmin books out there. Plenty for RedHat, too. It may be an idea to go the self-taught route first before splashing out money on "My First Computer" courses or super-expensive qualifications - especially if it is just for CV padding.
I'm still new to linux if I'm honest but so far the hardest part seems to be learning all the names of different resources. Grab yourself a cheap server and crack on. Centos is supposed to be equivalent to redhat minus the premium functions it hopefully is a good starting base for learning administration.
Not sure who's happier about my new server me or the cat who's found a warm place to sleep
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Yep, CentOS is the "community" version of Red Hat. You can always give Fedora a go too, this is again Red Hat but for the desktop. Obviously there are differences from actual Red Hat, but generally anything you learn on CentOS/Fedora can be applied to RH. The same can be said for any flavour of Linux really. A lot of people start out with Ubuntu.
Crusier, defo red hat/aix/oracle os certified courses rather than generic ones if your adding it to your cv
You can download images of most of these to practice in virtual box, you'll learn more this way than a course
Agree. If you must do a course, then go for one of the big names as they will be well known in the industry. But again, if you don't know you will be using these skills any time soon, you may want to consider saving the money and going self-taught. Get your new employer to pay!