We need free cloud lab environments to host virtual machines and switches. If cities can provide free community college access, there should be some type of free cloud access for students to create and operate their lab learning environments in.
I’m sick of running this on my laptop and having to constantly suspend and restart virtual machines all the time. I’ve come to notice that servers, especially Microsoft ones, don’t like to be suspended and restarted constantly. Services can become flaky and you can waste a lot of time troubleshooting and having to restart machines.
There’s no excuse for not being able to have a little lab environment in the cloud somewhere. Nothing I do is remotely commercial. It’s all for learning.
The level of instructional quality at community colleges is highly debatable. Why not provide learning resources for students to learn on their own?
There are videos online about setting up boxes for home lab environments. I researched this, for example someone might want to get an HPE DL180 gen9 with a H240 RAID card to host virtual machines for their learning environment. But not everyone has the resources to do this. Especially under this utter shit job market for native IT workers.
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