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Ideal Business Stack? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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In the land of all the self hosted solutions. What are your best practices / options for business and general admin tasks?

So far we are thinking of setting up a NAS, Paperlessngx for document scanning, FreePBX for phone system, they have accounting software and employee time tracking software. Planning to use nextcloud, running on Proxmox including backups to NAS, with tailscale for 2 people to get in from outside, photoprism for photo storage, portainer.

The goal is a simple, clean, hands off, ways to cut down, centralize the general business work flow. This is a from scratch build and start. All options welcome, the point is to explore ideas. Full production environment for a small business. 1 or 2 office people, 1 to 10 employees. Using a gaming rig mid high end specs which is way overkill for this setup but it might grow depending on this post.

I am looking to FOSS-ify a local business. It's a service based business, that also does manufacturing which is growing rapidly to overtake the service side it seems this is their goal anyhow.

This is our time to shine! To show how far we have come and what we can now do! An exciting project.

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[–] Xanza@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think you're seriously underestimating the size of this job. This is the work of 4-5 people over several weeks to even upwards of a month. PBX alone is a real PITA to get setup and to manage. Then you actually have to train your people on how to use the infrastructure you just setup for them.

Like you said, they've been operating one way for two decades and now you're completely uprooting that on top of having to setup and manage everything.

You're underestimating this.

[–] OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you for the feedback. This seems to be the general consensus. What tech stacks would be good given the circumstances I'm now finding myself in. Personally I dislike Google and all that. But this is business. People need to survive and eat.

[–] rimu@piefed.social 2 points 1 year ago

You're going to have to prioritise.

Find changes that:

Save a decent amount of money Are low risk Don't take too long to do Can be easily backed-out of