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Looking for help/guidance on how to setup a server for a business (fedia.io)
submitted 1 week ago by young_broccoli@fedia.io to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Hi. Some friends of mine are starting a business and they want to setup a server to host a simple "contact" website, run an e-mail service (about 10 accounts for now but with possibilities of expanding it to support more) and to store and remote access documents.

Im a computer savvy person so they asked me for help, but dont know much about self-hosting so I come here asking you:

What kind of hardware do they need and would be best? What OS and other software is required and recomended?
How to set it up/configure it? Im partial to foss but if there are good propietary options they are acceptable too. And last: What do we have to watch out for or avoid.

Also, space is a bit of an issue, I was thinking they could use something small like an intel nuc but Im worried that hardware would be underpowered for their needs.

I have been googling for stuff myself but I get overwhelmed by the ammount of information and some contradicting opinions so I appreciate your recomendations and guidance. Im not asking you to give me a full tutorial, although I would appreciate it too, but just to be pointed in the right direction to avoid, as much as possible, spending money and time on things they might not really need or might not perform as well.

Thanks in advance.

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[–] emuspawn@orbiting.observer 14 points 6 days ago (2 children)

It sucks, but as someone who hosts their own services and supports business clients: If they have a budget, Office365 all the way. Does it suck paying money to M$? Oh hell yeah. But it's a 'cost of doing business'. Don't screw around if they can afford it, just go O365 :(

[–] halm@leminal.space 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I understand the ease from an admin POV, but besides locking users into a third party, corporate suite, everything UX about Office365 sucks balls.

[–] young_broccoli@fedia.io 3 points 6 days ago

Agreed. But stability and reliability would be a priority for this so like emuspawn said "cost of doing business" :c

[–] young_broccoli@fedia.io 1 points 6 days ago

Will look into it. Thanks!