Launch Your Sysadmin Career — Start Building Real Skills Today
On-demand courses with live lab environments. Learn infrastructure automation, security hardening, and cloud operations at your own pace. Your first 14 days are on us.
Over 620 sysadmins enrolled since 2019. Average completion rate: 78%.
623
Students Enrolled
78%
Completion Rate
11 min
Avg. Lab Spin-Up
4.7
Student Rating
42
Lab Environments
5 yrs
Running Since 2019
Four Stages. One Complete Skill Set.
Work through them in order, or jump to the stage you need. Each one builds on real-world scenarios — not textbook exercises.
Assess & Plan
Audit an existing environment, identify weak points, and build a remediation plan. You'll work with a simulated 200-node network that's deliberately messy — missing patches, bad configs, the whole thing.
6 modules. Roughly 20 hours of lab time.
Deploy & Configure
Stand up infrastructure from nothing. Networking, storage, identity, monitoring. The capstone exercise has you deploy a full multi-tier application stack with automated provisioning — and then someone breaks it, and you fix it.
Monitor & Manage
Set up observability from scratch — metrics, logs, alerts. The final exercise is a simulated outage at 11 PM where you have to triage, communicate, and resolve under a mock SLA.
- • Alerting pipeline design
- • Log aggregation and retention
- • Writing runbooks that make sense at 2 AM
Scale & Evolve
The advanced track. Capacity planning, cost modeling, migration strategies, team leadership. Less hands-on-keyboard, more architect-level thinking.
Fair warning: this stage is hard. About 60% of students attempt it. Those who finish say it changed how they think about infrastructure.
Built for Sysadmins Who Actually Work
On-Demand, Not Scheduled
Start any module whenever you want. Midnight. Sunday. Nobody's waiting for a cohort to fill.
Real Lab Environments
Browser-based access to actual servers, not simulations. Break things. That's the whole point.
Mentor Access
Stuck on a lab exercise? Post in the forum and a working sysadmin mentor responds — usually within a few hours, not days.
Portfolio-Ready Projects
Every track ends with a project you can show in interviews. One student's capstone literally became their take-home assignment for a senior role.
Career Support
Resume templates, interview prep docs, and a job board partnership. Not glamorous, but it works.
Lifetime Lab Reruns
Finished a track? Come back any time and redo the labs. Content updates quarterly — your access doesn't expire.
We're not for everyone. If you want instructor-led live sessions with fixed schedules, we're probably not the right fit. Our model is self-paced with mentor support.
Numbers First, Then the Story
+35%
"Salary bump after I finished tracks 1 through 3 and moved from helpdesk to a junior sysadmin role. Took about five months total."
Carla Liu
Jr. Systems Admin, Oakmont Medical
6 weeks
"Time from starting the Deploy track to landing a new position. The portfolio project was the thing that set me apart — the interviewer said so."
Robert Garza
Infrastructure Engineer, Pinehill Logistics
42 labs
"I've done 42 of the labs now — some of them twice. The monitoring track is what I keep coming back to. Honestly? Some of the early modules felt too basic for me, but the advanced stuff is solid."
Tanya Strickland
Senior Sysadmin, Bayline Credit Union
Quick Answers
What happens after the 14-day trial?
Your access pauses. No charge, no surprise billing. If you want to continue, pick a plan. If not, your progress stays saved — you can come back later.
Do I need experience to start?
You should be comfortable with a command line. The first track (Assess & Plan) assumes you've managed at least a handful of servers before. Total beginners will find it rough — we're honest about that.
How much does a subscription cost?
Contact us for current pricing — it depends on whether you want individual or team access. We offer monthly and annual plans, and employer-sponsored billing is common. About 40% of our students get their company to pay for it.
Can my employer buy seats for a team?
Yes. Team plans start at 5 seats and include a dashboard where managers can track progress. Call us to set that up.
Is there a mobile app?
No. The labs require a real browser on a laptop or desktop. You can watch video walkthroughs on your phone, but the hands-on exercises need a proper screen.
Fourteen Days. Full Access. Zero Risk.
Every track, every lab, every mentor channel. If it's not for you, walk away — no credit card was ever charged.
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