Interesting debate at work - Should a web developer be a Linux engineer

[Thesnipergecko]

Basically, the debate is should a PHP developer know Linux inside out to maintain hosted servers etc.

We already pay a substantial fee per month for hosting and support, should our developers also know what they are doing in a Linux environment?

 

[Thesnipergecko]

How far would you push? Should they be expected to know SSL or be able to use Putty?

Should they be able to do a dump of httpdocs / mysql databases using command line?

 

[Thesnipergecko]

Thanks for all the feedback folks, it's been very helpful.