Criteria 1: Cheap (don't spend too much at this stage) Criteria 2: Easy (your time is better spent on other things) Criteria 3: Portable (if successful, you w

Criteria 1: Cheap (don't spend too much at this stage) Criteria 2: Easy (your time is better spent on other things) Criteria 3: Portable (if successful, you will move to a larger/better office. If not, you will sell this stuff to someone else. Either way, keep it portable) I wouldn't overthink this right now. Do whatever is most efficient for you. Make sure you have an easy, touch-free, reliable way of making off-site backups of your source code (presumably the only real thing of "value" right now). For things I have been involved in, I do my own hosting. All servers are linux. Email, web, svn, etc., all setup on linux boxes and backed up to other remote linux boxes. I have been doing iterations of that for 15 years now. It just happens, it takes me no effort. It might take you a solid month and still not work right, in which case that is the wrong approach for YOU. Check craigslist for furniture. Start with used office furniture. As a rule of thumb, for offices I have built out, it will cost you $1,000/cubicle (used cubicle, chair, labor/install/setup). This is most likely too expensive, especially if you can get a $200 chair and a simple desk someplace else. Just make sure the furniture is workable. I worked at one place that had really nice chairs and really basic desks (tables really), no storage for books, no room to spread things out. It sucked.