The whole reason I took this job is the stake in the company

Man I was suppressing the red flags up until now; this is the straw that breaks the camel’s back. You are going to get shafted at this job. It might be because someone is embezzling, they’re committing fraud in their manufacturing processes, or one of the owners is going to cut and run and leave the rest of you holding the bag. Maybe one day you’ll just show up and the doors are all locked.

You need to do absolutely everything by the book, document, document, document, CYA, and in a way that when shit goes south you’ll still have that documentation. And always have an exit plan.

There are plenty of document management solutions. What is the actual problem you’re trying to solve? Not just “it’s a mess” because I can solve that with a trash can. What are the needs of the users?

The value in those products is that it takes much less management, brings much greater reliability, and support teams if you have issues. If your dinky NAS shits the bed, the company’s data is gone, the company is kaput, you are all out of a job.

Of course there is a middle ground. I know there are plenty of open-source hosted products. They’re still subscriptions, but that monthly expense probably comes out cheaper than the time and effort building and maintaining your custom systems.

If you still really want to host it yourself, make sure you run through your disaster and recovery scenarios. You will have to have a 3-2-1 backup system. And remember because shit will go wrong, two is one, and one is none. That includes you personally, in the event you get hit by a bus lottery.

I would recommend an actual Dell tower server with idrac for remote management, and with prosupport for when something blows up (sometimes literally, I had one PSU go bang on a server under my desk at one point). Fill it with enough disks for redundancy and data growth for the next few years, but leaving room for expansion. Put your favorite hypervisor on it, set up some vms or containers to run those services, test backups, and document everything so that a semi-trained monkey can follow it.

But don’t host your own email. Getting each individual email server to not consider you spam is a Sisyphean task.

For business? What’s the value to the business over services like Office 365?

Personally, unless there’s a very good reason for it, I strongly recommend against this. I used to work for a company that did business IT, and there were far too many times we got called in to take over for a guy that did it himself and got in over his head, left the company, or just plain died, and it ended up costing the company much more in the long run.

Why are you using some random blog post? The page you linked to shows how to use it without Cloudflare…

¿Que dumbasses?

It comes from not using huge amounts of water to grow water-intensive crops in the California desert.

This is them going into IPO mode.

Matrix is a reasonable replacement.

I’m not aware of any existing products, but this sounds like you could knock it out in a day writing it yourself.

It looks like it’s an open request on Mealie. I don’t see one for Tandoor. Shame, because Mealie already has aliases for ingredients, it shouldn’t be too hard to extend that to respect the language setting.

No, that would probably be Valve. Several fan mods became full games in their own right (Counter-Strike, Black Mesa). Others were mods of non-Valve games (Team Fortress, Dota 2 (sort of)).

Honestly that’s probably true. Killing them with kindness. If they all have this for free, they may not have much motivation to continue.

You can, turn off your devices and go outside.

The problem is when your previous posts are suddenly now crimes, and nobody cares about ex post facto any more.

They don’t, and that’s not happening here.

What exactly is the connection?

Airbnb kitchens aren’t great either (dull knives, wrecked pans) but at least they exist.

Yup. You make yourself look like a bot, you’re gonna get treated like a bot.

Originally, they did fill a niche. If you have a big group of people, a hotel breaks the group up into rooms. Airbnb lets you have one place all to yourself.

Nowadays it’s gone to shit with low quality spaces, hotels listing themselves on Airbnb, stuff like that. I hope there’s a middle ground.

Depending on country, that might be the law.