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Small team, though, non-profit. There is wayyyy more work to do than any one individual has time to do, and while this is probably common even in non-startup-y
by selykg 3y ago
Small team, though, non-profit. There is wayyyy more work to do than any one individual has time to do, and while this is probably common even in non-startup-y type businesses, it means "work on what matters most" is really important.
I don't believe managing my own cloud is anywhere near the top of my list of things that matter most. We pay something like $8.50 a month to just have the devices backed up using a backup service. It would cost significantly more for me to maintain OwnCloud.
- justinclift 3y agoThere is no such thing as a team that's too small to make their own backups. :(
- selykg 3y agoI don't think I said we weren't making backups. We have two pieces in place: 1. We are a Microsoft 365 shop, so OneDrive stores versions of files and all that. Admittedly this is not a "backup" necessarily, but it does serve a portion of the purpose of backups and are far more easily accessible to users themselves. 2. We also have a backup service running on every company issued laptop that backs up to a backup service. What I am not advocating is that a small team should setup their own cloud for the purpose of backups. That's a lot of work and maintenance. I am an IT team of 1. My time is better spent on actually getting work done, not playing around with self hosting stuff and maintaining that. Backups are important, otherwise I wouldn't be spending thousands of dollars on it in my tiny little budget each year. But I disagree pretty strongly with the priority of _how_ to do backups.