Would experianced veterans be welling to help via a remote support session for $

[hondablaster]

One of my biggest pet peeves in this industry is that there is a lot of stuff you can do but only have so much time to learn it independently. If you're someone that can learn and retain knowledge and also apply it it becomes difficult to find sources of wisdom to accelerate learning.

I know there are several high caliber techs in the forums who have excellent post and am sure have to social skills and patience to teach a concept in an hour session.

For example.

What would you charge to show someone how to install and secure, php, mysql, and apache for example. I have these installed but I would fear putting them into production would surely get hacked somehow. It would be nice to get to learn proper habits early on.

I would be willing to pay 60+$ an hour for such services, granted that the person I am dealing with has the proper social, mental and emotional set, to handle a training session and barrage of questions. Also someone who actually knows what they are talking about vs just a conceptual understanding. In other words just because you're an awesome tech doesn't mean awesome communicator. I need a mix of the two.

Let the discussion begin.


Thanks

 

[anglian]

Why don't you just pay for hosting that is already secure, I have seen several members here as well as myself that offer hosting services.

I spent years learning how to take care of servers, it is a never ending learning curve.

 

[hondablaster]

Why don't you just pay for hosting that is already secure, I have seen several members here as well as myself that offer hosting services.

I spent years learning how to take care of servers, it is a never ending learning curve.

Oh no I understand. I was using it for more of an example, right now its just a toy that I am willing to learn to play with.

I just think that time is a precious commodity and If spending $60-80 to learn the basics of something in one hour saves me 8 hours of my day I see it as a positive expense.

About 10 days ago I didn't even know what wordpress actually was until I found a thread discussing it. (I think it may have even been one of your posts) Someone said they can set up a wordpress in 30 minutes and I wanted to see this in action.... As much as I know I feel that I want to know more about things that extend outside of typical desktop support.

 

[anglian]

If you want to install apache/php/MySQL etc locally so you can play with wordpress/joomla I would recommend wamp

It does it all for you, and if you break it, just reinstall

 

[hondablaster]

If you want to install apache/php/MySQL etc locally so you can play with wordpress/joomla I would recommend wamp

It does it all for you, and if you break it, just reinstall

I used Xampp. That's how I got it to work in the first place the separate downloads and installation is a bit buggy and I was getting ready to pull my hair out. These tools help. Once again I didn't even know wampserver existed!

These are the things I would like to set up and have support for.

Also I am willing to pay to fix bugs in my Autoit script etc.

Aside from the whole wordpress example what would a veteran techs experience cost for a remote support session or even just a phone call to pick someones brain.

Thanks for all replies in advance.

 

[anglian]

Have you found anyone yet?
Unfortunately I am a doer and not a teacher, but if it helps I can setup a bit of space for you on one of my servers so you can play around with wordpress/joomla

 

[hondablaster]

That would be great. I am researching frameworks and trying to decide how much time I want to commit over my other projects and home and at work.

I would love to try that sometime.

Thank you.

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

A direct answer to your thread topic....I've done it in the past...helped out fellow forum members remotely on an issue. But then further into your thread you're talking about web based stuff...and that stuff...I don't do.

 

[tankman1989]

One of my biggest pet peeves in this industry is that there is a lot of stuff you can do but only have so much time to learn it independently. If you're someone that can learn and retain knowledge and also apply it it becomes difficult to find sources of wisdom to accelerate learning.

I know there are several high caliber techs in the forums who have excellent post and am sure have to social skills and patience to teach a concept in an hour session.

For example.

What would you charge to show someone how to install and secure, php, mysql, and apache for example. I have these installed but I would fear putting them into production would surely get hacked somehow. It would be nice to get to learn proper habits early on.

I would be willing to pay 60+$ an hour for such services, granted that the person I am dealing with has the proper social, mental and emotional set, to handle a training session and barrage of questions. Also someone who actually knows what they are talking about vs just a conceptual understanding. In other words just because you're an awesome tech doesn't mean awesome communicator. I need a mix of the two.

Let the discussion begin.


Thanks

Learning how to install a secured web server is as simple as googling "secure web server install" or Secure LAMP install.