Comment on Self-hosting Odoo ERP for small business - bad idea?
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
I do recommend self hosting actually, if you’ve got the chops.
Odoo online doesn’t allow custom modules and odoo.sh hosting is pretty expensive. Think aws prices quadrupled.
I would however not recommend running it on a home server if it’s business critical. Run it on something where you can easily recover from hardware failure, etc.
And as I tell everyone, if you need customizations, I charge reasonable rates and can invoice from a company. But custom modules can make future upgrades more difficult.
dan@upvote.au 1 week ago
I know this comment is a bit old, but do you have any recommendations on how to learn about building custom Odoo modules? I’m an experienced developer (with over 20 years experience) but am new to Odoo. I’ve learnt some things by looking at the code for OCA modules (I had to debug an issue with the Plaid bank statement integration) but am interested in any resources you found useful.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
Honestly, my main resources were the CTO at my company, as well as our existing custom modules so if you’re using OCA modules as a reference you’re already on the right path. If you’ve got any specific questions you can ask me, or I can try to think of what the common pitfalls are that I’ve seen that aren’t really well documented.
You can also contract me as a consultant but if you’ve got 20 years of dev experience I’m assuming you aren’t very interested.
Do you have access to the Enterprise codebase? That would also be helpful if you’re running enterprise modules