I do at least some of this with the server in my basement. * version control - git and gitweb - I mirror all my repos to github for discoverability though * in

I do at least some of this with the server in my basement. * version control - git and gitweb - I mirror all my repos to github for discoverability though * invoicing - I've done this with text files to track hours and PDFs for invoices (via LibreOffice) - low tech but simple enough * document sharing - my home dir on my server (weak, I know, but simple) * file server - see above * mail server - postfix, amavis, and spamassassin aren't too hard to set up * static server - apache or nginx are trivial to set up * ruby/node - well, I mostly serve Perl stuff, but same deal using Starman - this isn't too hard either * wordpress - yep, installed this too Things I don't host myself: * bug tracker - I mostly use rt.cpan.org and github * project management - I use Hiveminder Now if I had to learn all this from scratch it would indeed be a lot of time and head-banging, but I've learned about this stuff over many years of using Linux and hosting my own stuff. And they're all useful skills to know as a developer. I think any developer who's working on web apps should understand at least the basics of how web and mail servers work. Even if you outsource this stuff to a CDN and something like Sendgrid you should know the tradeoffs involved instead of just picking the outsourcing because you can't set it up yourself.