Perspectives
Not a comparison of features. A description of what actually changes when a 30-50 person team moves its files, email, and documents off Google onto infrastructure it owns.
Most growing businesses pay for email three times — inboxes, campaigns, and verification. The self-hosted stack that replaces all three, and what it costs.
rootpath.studio needed infrastructure that matched its open-source values. We replaced their full SaaS stack — files, email, communication, and design — with tools they own outright. Here is what the migration involved and what changed.
Open-source deployments often succeed technically and fail operationally. We break down the most common failure modes and what production-ready infrastructure actually requires beyond the initial deployment.
Someone quits on a Friday. By Monday you're trying to figure out which systems they had access to. Here's how to set up access control properly — before you need it.
At 40 people, a realistic SaaS stack costs $100 per seat per month — $48,000 a year for tools you don't own. Here's where the break-even point sits, which tools are worth replacing, and what actually stops people from switching.
Most teams exploring self-hosted AI focus on the wrong question. They ask 'can we deploy this?' when they should be asking 'can we operate this for the next two years?'
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