Licença perpétua ou assinatura? As contas de um gabinete de contabilidade
Fiz as contas para um gabinete com seis postos e partilho o raciocínio.
Cenário assinatura: custo mensal por utilizador, pago todos os meses enquanto o gabinete existir. Ao fim de 4–5 anos, o total acumulado ultrapassa largamente uma licença perpétua.
Cenário licença perpétua: paga-se uma vez por posto. Sem nuvem incluída, mas o gabinete já tinha o seu servidor de ficheiros.
O que pesou na decisão
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[]Ninguém usava as funcionalidades de colaboração online.A contabilidade precisava do Access para uma base antiga.
Escolhemos o Office 2024 Professional Plus com licença vitalícia para todos os postos. Fatura em nome da empresa, uma chave por PC, tudo registado no inventário.
A regra que tiro disto: primeiro perceber o que a equipa usa, só depois escolher o modelo de licença.

And that is probably why I administer an Instance in the first place.
Okay, It has been a while since I have done any web development. So I decided to get some new books to address changes in the last few years. Because, yes, in the last few years a lot has happened. I am hoping these books are solid. I will let you know. If you happen to be thinking of the irony of the choices of my two titles, I know, that is just how I process.

Unus Nemo
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First, Welcome to Rogue Project's Friendica.
Yes, I am aware of Metcalfe’s law though I will take the millions of users that we federate with against Meta's Nefarious algorithm any day. I will always take quality over quantity. I am a Facebook refugee myself.
There is already an official Friendica Container available from the github if you want to go that route. Though of course you can design your own. If I was going to go that route I would, I am not fan of their setup at all.
You can of course run an Instance on your Home Server and if it is just a 1 person Instance with minimal federation (no relay) then you will do well. If however you want to run an Instance with the stats I show below then sorry, that is not going to happen. Neither can you run it from a shared web-server as they suggest in the documentation with that kind of federation involved. The problem is that even if you have a gigabit fiber connection at home the caps on a conventional ISP connection will break your Instance in seconds not minutes during peak federation periods. Due to the high volume of Server to Server communication. For the same reasons it will break a shared website like a standard GoDaddy subscription. To handle a high federation Instance you will need a VPS, I recommend IONOS. My VPS stats are Cpu:8 vCore, RAM:16 GB, Disk:320 GB NVMe SSD, though if you are only hosting a Friendica Instance you can likely do with half that.
I recommend going bare metal and skipping the latency of a kubernete distributed system as you do not need to worry about horizontal scaling, that will be handled by federating. You have no need of it and you will pay all the taxes of it. On a development server at home that you are not fully federating with then yes that would be fine, but I would not recommend it for a production Instance. You will notice that the other Friendica Instances that have constant 504 (database time out) issues are all container based Instances using S3 storage for their datastore.
Because horizontal scaling comes from the federation of many nodes on The Fediverse a Containerized setup pays no dividend for your investment. You can try it if you like and let the latency answer the questions for you
. I know we have all been told to departmentalize everything and there is a lot of truth to that. In this scenario it just does not work well. I was thinking much along the lines you are when I first setup my Instance. The reality of actually administering this Instance for the last few years has showed me reality v ideology. 
When you get your VPS and are setting up feel free to ask me questions. I will be glad to help you in all I can.
Rogue Project's Friendica Federation
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Do not despair, if you can afford $20.00 USD a month (or even less) then you can get a decent VPS from IONOS. Or maybe you only want a small Instance for family and friends? That a home server could handle.
Unus Nemo
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You can invite your family and friends here though. We can always more users!
Unus Nemo
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I sent you a follow, you can follow back if you want to stay in touch.