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Although it has limitations in terms of personalization and dynamic features, several websites (including FSCI's website) run as static websites. These are easier to be made secure, can be easily hosted, can be optimized to load very fast, and has several other advantages.

=== Read documentation ===

Some people don't read. And then they make mistakes that they could have avoided if they had read the documentation. One could say that this is a design issue and that the person who did the documentation is to be blamed. But if you want to host services on your own, a mature approach would be to hold yourself accountable in reading documentation. Read documentation. Even if it is long. Even if it will take a long time. Even if you don't understand most of it. (Try to understand more about topics you don't understand). It will help.

=== If you can read the code, you will be able to solve more problems ===

While good documentation is enough to deploy software, documentation is not always complete or correct. If you are able to read the source code you will be able to get an exact answer to various problems you come across. You might be able to spot bugs, report them, and even fix them! Since free software is a collective enterprise, your contribution in this way is welcome and encouraged! (Be mindful about the personal preferences of maintainers, though)

=== LLMs are Stochastic Parrots ===

While LLMs are good at giving you guidance on things about which there is plenty of literature on the internet, many sysadmin tasks are very contextual to your setup (the state of your server and the peculiarities of the software you're dealing with). If you do not know what you're doing, using LLM can be dangerous as they can give generic answers which might not be the best for you. If you do know what you're doing, you probably will be using LLM like a search engine.

== See Also ==

* [[Sysadmin roadmap]]

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 Although it has limitations in terms of personalization and dynamic features, several websites (including FSCI's website) run as static websites. These are easier to be made secure, can be easily hosted, can be optimized to load very fast, and has several other advantages.
+=== Read documentation ===
+Some people don't read. And then they make mistakes that they could have avoided if they had read the documentation. One could say that this is a design issue and that the person who did the documentation is to be blamed. But if you want to host services on your own, a mature approach would be to hold yourself accountable in reading documentation. Read documentation. Even if it is long. Even if it will take a long time. Even if you don't understand most of it. (Try to understand more about topics you don't understand). It will help.
 === If you can read the code, you will be able to solve more problems ===
 While good documentation is enough to deploy software, documentation is not always complete or correct. If you are able to read the source code you will be able to get an exact answer to various problems you come across. You might be able to spot bugs, report them, and even fix them! Since free software is a collective enterprise, your contribution in this way is welcome and encouraged! (Be mindful about the personal preferences of maintainers, though)
+=== LLMs are Stochastic Parrots ===
+While LLMs are good at giving you guidance on things about which there is plenty of literature on the internet, many sysadmin tasks are very contextual to your setup (the state of your server and the peculiarities of the software you're dealing with). If you do not know what you're doing, using LLM can be dangerous as they can give generic answers which might not be the best for you. If you do know what you're doing, you probably will be using LLM like a search engine.
+== See Also ==
+* [[Sysadmin roadmap]]