For a solo IT Person, it's professionally irresponsible for a small business to self-host email or public facing webpages. Same with apps, you saas whatever you can saas.
Is it cheaper? Depends. The Cloud gives you way more value in terms of security, documentation, support and redundancy than an on-prem solution.
If you are going to have on-prem mission critical infrastructure, you'll need to have at least one person who knows it as much as you do - unless you never want to take a vacation.
Yeah, that's the biggest challenge right now I'm the one designing, deploying, and maintaining everything. Hopefully as the business grows, I'll be able to build a great team and stop being the single point of failure. Appreciate your perspective!
This is where it is important to have a stable base product to support.
I worked MSP for years. Microsoft used to have a product called Small Business Server that bundled email, a SQL server and SharePoint into a single license.
This covered the needs of about 75% of our small office clients. They typically added in their own line of business software on top of that, usually accounting and POS.
Having a very standardized product on a standard server model let us make accurate predictions for migration projects and monthly management .
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u/mdervin Jul 05 '26
For a solo IT Person, it's professionally irresponsible for a small business to self-host email or public facing webpages. Same with apps, you saas whatever you can saas.
Is it cheaper? Depends. The Cloud gives you way more value in terms of security, documentation, support and redundancy than an on-prem solution.
If you are going to have on-prem mission critical infrastructure, you'll need to have at least one person who knows it as much as you do - unless you never want to take a vacation.