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> The only thing I've found with a close value proposition (still slightly more expensive even if I limit to just a few gb of space per user) is self-hosted Nex

> The only thing I've found with a close value proposition (still slightly more expensive even if I limit to just a few gb of space per user) is self-hosted Nextcloud, which is about the same level of janky and requires a tech person or team to set up. I would not imagine storage to be a major cost with something like Nextcloud. They major cost is going to be the tech person to set it up, and you do not need that many hours to do it. Mostly an initially one off cost will be high, and big upgrades might be a lot of work, but maintenance should not be

esperent 1y ago
I've already set it up and we're running a test with 4 users since about a month now. I'm hosting it on Hetzner VPS with storage on Wasabi, backups on Backblaze. You're correct that storage is cheap. Compute and ram are the main costs, and I'm not sure how to quantify that until/if we run with the full team of 30 people. My current setup of 4 dedicated vcpus, 16gb ram is massive overkill for 4 people, hopefully it's enough for 30. It's currently at around the break even point compared to MS Teams. I think maybe $5 a month more expensive all in for the VPS, storage, and backup. It would be cheaper if I could run on Arm but unfortunately Hetzner doesn't have that in their Asia region yet.