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by mweil 5264 days ago
Build as little as you can get away with on your own. Focus on the core value of your business and not the incidentals, if you can help it. Use Dropbox or Box.net for file sharing, Github for version control, Google Apps for calendaring/email/contacts, and use S3 to backup your EC2 servers nightly. We also use the Github wiki for our various projects.

Of course, you can make your own choices in all of the above tech. I was just providing a list for the sake of examples. The point is, each of these things is the core value of these other businesses and they do them better than you will be able to. It's absolutely worth the small fees they charge to keep you focused on your core product.

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And backup OFFSITE. S3 is onsite if you use EC2.