• BCsven@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    Many of the things you listed are available as free software through opensource projects. Microsoft just bundles it all making it easy.

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        21 hours ago

        Which is cheap. You can run a lot on a pi these days. Or setup a higher powered nuc. MS chargers for server and now named user licenses.

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          20 hours ago

          You can not run enterprise business functions on a pi unless your “enterprise” is made up of a single user.

          Even something like basic video steaming for internal training videos would kill it due to encoding issues. Let alone the impact from one service affecting others like a user file transfer affecting the speed of messaging or email, or a complex database activity momentarily taking out your task management application.

          You would need a dozen of them for splitting services and redundancy, then a UPS and redundant internet connections. It would end up costing you a few thousand dollars just in hardware before you even started paying someone to set it up and keep it running.

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            17 hours ago

            We selfhost a lot for work. Was paid services before but cost kept creeping up. Companies have IT anyway, so it is really not a huge expense to manage your own services.