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Open-source and self-hosted enterprise? (feddit.nl)

submitted 2 months ago by Zephyr@feddit.nl to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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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:

WordPress for website
OpenProject for project related task
InvoiceNinja for invoice purposes

Any advice and comments would be appreciated!

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[–] Zephyr@feddit.nl 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well said, and the 'oops shit's dead' is also in the making. We have the chance to be close to a school so electricity + internet is never down. The time to move to a VPS/other location is minimal, with encrypted backup on multiple locations. Open to suggestions to improve the setup.

[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well, a fault isn't just an outage.

You said the other person involved isn't technical: what if say, a database corrupts itself and you're on vacation for a week.

Is the expectation that you'll always be available all the time to fix technical problems?

And, as a failure state: what happens if you simply cannot be reached for that week no matter what. What's the failover plan for the rest of the people involved in the business?

[–] Zephyr@feddit.nl 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, the bus factor is an issue to take into account also. I'll need to find someone else to be able to solve those issues.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 8 points 2 months ago

And then you are basically hiring an infra team to run the services and have the redundancy, and then with salaries you're nearing just paying for software again