Do You Need A College Degree For a System Administration Career? @tutoriaLinux

Uploaded February 2017 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

It's one of the most popular questions I get: Is a college degree required for a System Administration Career?

-Do I need a university degree for a tech career, in general?
-How can I get my first Linux sysadmin job without a degree?

In this video I talk about the value of Degrees vs. the value of Education, and some career/learning strategies for people who don't have a college degree.

3:18 - Education vs Experience
4:09 - What to Study (High-Level overview in terms of University classes to emulate)
6:10 - Theory vs. Practical Skill
7:52 - How to Become a System Administrator (recommended learning path)
10:02 - Practice + Theory work together to make you better

Book Mentioned: Andrew Tanenbaum's Modern Operating Systems (4th ed) - amzn.to/2kcBc6a

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Do You Need A College Degree For a System Administration Career?

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$Web Server Project 02 Setting up MySQL and PHP Heres how to get your database and interpreter set up for hosting an application on the LAMP/LEMP stack (Linux / Apache/Nginx / MySQL / PHP). This is the second of three videos about how to set up a webserver (and a WordPress blog or website on Linux). In this video, Ill show you how to install and configure a MySQL Database. Ill also show you how to set up PHP and php-fpm (our PHP interpreter and the fastcgi process manager) so that nginx can ask PHP to render pages with dynamic content for website visitors. This video is quick-and-dirty no optimization, only the most basic security precautions, etc...but it should get you started. Heres the nginx configuration file content for /etc/nginx/sites-available/{yoursite}: server { listen 80 default_server; listen [::]:80 default_server ipv6only=on; root /usr/share/nginx/html; index index.php index.html index.htm; server_name server_domain_name_or_IP; location / { try_files $uri $uri/ =404; } error_page 404 /404.html; error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html; location = /50x.html { root /usr/share/nginx/html; } location ~ .php$ { try_files $uri =404; fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+.php)(/.+)$; fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock; fastcgi_index index.php; fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name; include fastcgi_params; } } Full Linux Sysadmin Basics Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtK75qxsQaMLZSo7KL-PmiRarU7hrpnwK Check out my project-based Linux System Administration course (free sample videos): https://www.udemy.com/hands-on-linux-self-hosted-wordpress-for-linux-beginners/?couponCode=tl35 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tutorialinux Official Site: https://tutorialinux.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/tutorialinux Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tutorialinux$

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