Submitted 2 months ago by Zephyr@feddit.nl to selfhosted@lemmy.world
So we’re starting a general contractor company and i I’m wondering if anyone else did that and had general advice? Its with someone else that is not really technology savy.
Currently we’re using:
Any advice and comments would be appreciated!
Get someone with strong IT knowledge. Don’t try to do it yourself as it will backfire.
At home vs. for work are very different. At home, I self host as much as I can. At work, I use as many managed services as I can. Especially databases.
To each their own I guess, databases are ridiculously expensive when managed and I always self host.
Will you have an infra team to support these apps? If the answer is no, I would self host anything business critical.
A team? For what OP described, all you need is one person
If they aren’t critical to the business, have a blast with it. But when the downen services prevent or distract from the invoiceable work, that is a problem.
I can recommend some stuff I’ve been using myself :
I design, deploy and maintain such infrastructures for my own customers, so feel free to DM me with more details about your business if you need help with this
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web |
| VPS | Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting) |
| nginx | Popular HTTP server |
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Odoo.com is very powerful and can handle most business needs.
just_another_person@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Just use whatever works best for you. Just make sure there is a way you can easily export data from the tool in case you need to migrate to something else in the future.
infinitevalence@discuss.online 2 months ago
Second this, whatever you pick never let someone else “own” your data because then they own your company. If you cant export data freely so it can be imported into another system, then its not yours.