> Now that you have systems you can login to, their complexity is the same – except you won't have to care, or manage any hardware.
Depends upon the number of servers you have.
Back when I worked on several somewhat popular websites ( a handful with ~1-5mil daily unique users), we had about 40 servers and they mostly took care of themselves. Between me (primarily a developer) and the CTO we averaged maybe a single day thinking about hardware per month, and that was mostly to install new hardware rather than taking care of existing stuff.
If you have this number of servers, once you have something like Ansible setup (we used cfengine back in the day, ugh), both hardware and software mostly manages itself.
Depends upon the number of servers you have.
Back when I worked on several somewhat popular websites ( a handful with ~1-5mil daily unique users), we had about 40 servers and they mostly took care of themselves. Between me (primarily a developer) and the CTO we averaged maybe a single day thinking about hardware per month, and that was mostly to install new hardware rather than taking care of existing stuff.
If you have this number of servers, once you have something like Ansible setup (we used cfengine back in the day, ugh), both hardware and software mostly manages itself.