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Running a business is much, much more expensive than you'd expect if you've never done it before. I started one on $60 so I get the mindset which has people suggesting that this story represents prolifigate spending, but oh my goodness, it's practically a shoestring . There is an individual thing in the AR deployment which exists for no technical purpose to get us a piece of paper issued by Rackspace which we need fo…
I am sorry but what is AR deployment?
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I am sorry but what is AR deployment?
Appointment Reminder deployment, i.e. deploying one of the SAAS websites Patrick owns
At our agency we tend to have a lot of low budget projects, plus we like to keep expenses low if there's a relatively small overhead in return. For saving on costs we use: - Bitbucket over Github (Private repos are free, although Github has more features, so it depends on how much you use really) - Email Hosting Zoho over Google (FREE): We tend to recommend Zoho to single entrepreneurs since it offers 10 accounts for…
There's also StartSSL ( https://www.startssl.com ) for certificates too. You can get basic ones for free or pay a relatively cheap amount to get more a higher tier validation. I've been using them for years successfully, and when combined with SNI, I no longer need to pay for a multi-domain certificate.
At our agency we tend to have a lot of low budget projects, plus we like to keep expenses low if there's a relatively small overhead in return. For saving on costs we use: - Bitbucket over Github (Private repos are free, although Github has more features, so it depends on how much you use really) - Email Hosting Zoho over Google (FREE): We tend to recommend Zoho to single entrepreneurs since it offers 10 accounts for…
you should - it's amazing. When I tried it out, the really nice UI and the ability to self-host (it's good to know it's there - we're still using their hosting though as it's way less hassle) it was what immediately won me over.
At our agency we tend to have a lot of low budget projects, plus we like to keep expenses low if there's a relatively small overhead in return. For saving on costs we use: - Bitbucket over Github (Private repos are free, although Github has more features, so it depends on how much you use really) - Email Hosting Zoho over Google (FREE): We tend to recommend Zoho to single entrepreneurs since it offers 10 accounts for…
One can get 15 free accounts in Zoho (10 de-facto + 5 extra), if you can refer another business. Both parties get 5 extra users. Helpful for info@, jobs@, privacy@ etc.
I don't know about Zoho, but in case of Google Apps, they allow you a configuration to route all mail through a host of yours which would allow you to create these aliases without having to pay for actual accounts.
At lest that's what I'm doing at our place. All mail to our domain goes to our MX which does alias expansion and then forwards is to Google Apps (after making a backup copy into a maildir in case Gmail goes away and we need emergency-access to mail).
Google Apps in turn forwards all outgoing mail to that machine too which then makes a backup copy in a Sent-Mail maildir, before actually sending the mails off to the recipients (this step is harder because now it's your responsibility to deal with SPF, PTR lookups and mail server rep in general - but it's no rocket science either)
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I migrated from Heroku to OpsWorks a year ago and couldn't be happier.
Great to hear! My goal is to transition to AWS this year. I'll be sure to write about the cost differences.
At our agency we tend to have a lot of low budget projects, plus we like to keep expenses low if there's a relatively small overhead in return. For saving on costs we use: - Bitbucket over Github (Private repos are free, although Github has more features, so it depends on how much you use really) - Email Hosting Zoho over Google (FREE): We tend to recommend Zoho to single entrepreneurs since it offers 10 accounts for…
Might be worth checking out things like fbstart or foundersgrid perks to get a bunch of vouchers and discounts off these services. We got 6 months free Mailchimp and fee-free on Stripe for the first 60k i think, really helped at the time
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Yes it is always great to learn what other people are doing. I have no issue over the costs with paying for all these services as it is almost always cheaper than building/setting up the same tools yourself, the issue I have is the lack of skills/understanding that going down this route encourages. I like to build everything myself so I learn, not because this is the most efficient way to run things. When something b…
You are certainly not building "everything" yourself. You are drawing a line just like OP, that where you draw that line is different than theirs is not at all surprising.