Ask HN: Do you use any self-hosted open source tools to run your business?
I've been thinking of how a company could be set up with all of its tools and infrastructure running in Digital Ocean or Vultr App marketplace services. Rather than paying premium enterprise rates to different SAAS companies, you could simply pay your own hosting fees and that's it.
Obviously there's drawbacks: you have to maintain security and updates, and your non-technical employees will have to download strange apps (maybe even sideload them) and sometimes navigate incomplete user interfaces. Availability and latency could be an issue for distributed teams, and such services could make it more difficult to scale a business
But I wonder if anyone here is working at a company small enough that they can save money by hosting their own infrastructure and communication services