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> No reason to not just host email with any domain provider and manage the rest with a small NAS in the office. Sounds like even more of a single point of fail
by entuno 1y ago
> No reason to not just host email with any domain provider and manage the rest with a small NAS in the office.
Sounds like even more of a single point of failure, just on your domain provider (who's much more likely to go out of business) than Microsoft. And one with no chat, or phones, or conference calling, or shared calendars, or endpoint management, or SSO, etc, etc.
Just sticking all your data on a cheap NAS in the office works for a few people, although it becomes PITA to do granular permissions when you don't have any proper central authentication. But then it's also a massive single point of failure, so you need to implement a backup solution, and then a way to share files outside of the organisation, and then a VPN so that people can work remotely, and then some monitoring so that you know when a disk fails....and that's getting way beyond what a non-technical person can manage.
It's fine if you're just using it for your hobby. But building your business on top of something like is very likely to come back and bite you in the arse.
- herbst 1y agoWhat do people consider as NAS? A Network Harddrive? If you buy a "normal" Synology Nas it comes with shared calenders, office, VPN control, several backup options including Aws and Azure and a lot more. Typical setup and forget setup, thanks to their high package quality. And I am sure there are even better options than a household Synology. But putting everything in a cloud and fully depending on a single provider that for the majority of people is in a foreign (and politically dangerous) country is definitely not the obviously better option.
- entuno 1y agoWell yeah, that's what a NAS is. What you're talking about is just self-hosting a all-in-one server, like people used do with Windows Small Business Server, and all the problems and limitations that comes with. And plenty of small businesses and hobbyists do that, and then after they "setup and forget" it they get compromised or lose their data a few years down the line.
- herbst 1y agoYes and no. I've been in companies with windows business servers that were a constant pain to manage. Whereas the modern NAS, Building on stable open source software mostly offers the 'just works' experience people are looking for + the business grad documentation. Why would using a NAS (or small server) mean ignoring any basic logic (and business requirements) and not having off-site backups?
- entuno 1y agoSBS server "just works" if you just set it up once and then ignore it, your requirements never change, and and don't do basic things like maintenance and installing updates as well. People absolutely should be setting up offsite backups. And more importantly, testing them so that they can prove that they work. But if they have no technical team then neither of those things are going to happen.