A real server. Real infrastructure. Real control.
No babysitting. No hand-holding.
Just root access — and the freedom to do something worthy of it.
// what we are looking for
Every AI model, every LLM, every "vibe coding" side project still runs on servers. On docker containers. On subnets. On configs someone had to write. That someone might as well be you.
Developers come and go. The engineer who understands the machine — networking, storage, OS, orchestration — is the one who never gets replaced. By humans or models.
You will not learn SSH tunneling from YouTube. You learn it at 2am when you've accidentally locked yourself out of your own container and you have to figure it the hell out.
The cloud is just someone else's computer. Once you understand that — once you've spun up your own Nextcloud, built your own VPN from scratch, misconfigured your own iptables and watched the network die — you see through the abstraction. That clarity is worth more than any cert.
// the four filters
You open ports you didn't open. You wonder what runs on :8096. You type commands just to see what happens. If you've ever stayed up past 2am because you couldn't let a broken config beat you — you're in.
Every AI agent for coding still needs a runtime. Every vibe-coded SaaS still needs a server. Every startup still needs someone who can look at a dying process, read the logs, trace the failure, and fix it at 2am without Stack Overflow. Self-hosting is not a hobby. It is a superpower. And right now, while your peers are watching tutorials, you could be running real infrastructure for real users — and learning faster than any classroom will let you.
∗ seats are limited ∗ intentions are not ∗
We are looking for the next batch of server maintainers for CRISPR — the club server that's been running quietly at IIIT Nagpur for years. This is not an internship. This is not a workshop. This is the real thing.
applications close in 2.5 months // timeline: ssh access → challenges → demo day → keys to the kingdom