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Should your servers sit in your own room or in a data centre? The five-year cost lines on both sides, the expenses people forget, and the five questions that settle it.
Server rooms still run Windows Server 2012 boxes serving files and 2016 machines carrying the accounting system — one is long out of support, the other's clock runs out in early 2027. A version-plus-role inventory, risk ranking and the four exit paths, in one map.
Three strong models compete for your company files: an office NAS, Microsoft 365's SharePoint/OneDrive pair, and Google Drive. We compare speed, permissions, version history, backup responsibility and data residency — then recommend by scenario.
Both sides of the server decision open with a misleading number: the hardware sticker hides electricity and specialist time, the monthly cloud fee hides currency risk and egress charges. A line-by-line template for the honest five-year total cost of ownership.
Asked wholesale, "should we move to the cloud?" has no answer; asked per workload, it answers itself. Six common SMB workloads — from the accounting server to camera recording — run through five criteria, each with a clear verdict.
Three mature hypervisors, three different philosophies. A vendor-neutral comparison across licensing, ecosystem fit, backup support and skills availability — aimed at the question that matters: which one fits your business?
Virtualization gets marketed as data-centre technology, yet the clearest returns show up in businesses running a handful of servers. The five concrete gains, the honest limits, and what a migration really involves.
Both cloud giants offer different advantages for SMEs. Seven practical criteria — from Microsoft 365 integration to pricing model to local support — shorten the decision. This guide makes the choice concrete.
Proxmox is a practical virtualization platform for SMEs thanks to its open-source nature and mature management UI. Running multiple operating systems on a single server delivers hardware efficiency and management simplicity.
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