Working remotely, not being in the same office, or even time-zone, as your colleagues, forces you to rely on many tools to communicate, collaborate, manage, account and track.
We use quite a complicated set of mainly web-based tools to do this, but it’s worth it, because it allows myself and my team to stay remote and flexible. And the last thing we want is to go back to the daily commute!
Here is the officeless infrastructure we use:
- Communications
- Sales & CRM
- Project management
- Blogging
- Accounts, Bookkeeping & Billing
- Marketing
- Hosting
It’s interesting to note how important web-based tools are to living the work-from-home dream.
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I’ve learnt quite a lot about Linux server administration in the last year or so. I had found this subject complicated and inaccessible, but recently it’s been a lot more fun and easy to understand. This is entirely due to Slicehost, my all-time favourite hosting company.
Slicehost offer basic ‘slices’ (IP address, storage, bandwidth and RAM) for as little as $20 per month, you get to choose the installed OS from the major Linux distros. This means you have to do everything else yourself; extra packages, web servers, databases, email, whatever. For someone like myself the learning curve was a little steep, but due to Slicehost’s powerful admin tool and incredibly well-written articles you can start doing this stuff with only a little understanding about server admin.
So, if you want to learn this stuff quickly, buy a Slice and refer to PickledOnion’s articles. Easy!
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