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Summary
Jeremy Maldonado learned server management in the Linux-dominated web hosting world, then expanded into Windows as his career moved into more general IT. He compares the cost and speed of standing up a Linux box running Apache, email, and a local MySQL database for WordPress against the Active Directory and built-in Microsoft tooling that make Windows useful, and explains why Ansible became his automation tool of choice across both. The same YAML playbooks target Windows and Linux, and its module library and community forums made it approachable to learn. Automation comes down to trust. Once you automate, you add testing and monitoring and accept that your servers will run without you watching them. Jeremy treats every error log as a lesson that hardens your infrastructure for the next failure.
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