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Our blog Sep 22, 2025

Odoo experience 2025: Recap

Last week, Brussels once again became the epicenter of the open-source ERP world as thousands of professionals gathered for Odoo Experience 2025. As the founder of Skysize, an Odoo hosting company, fo...

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Aug 14, 2025 · 3 min read

The $5 VPS That Cost Everything: Why Self-Hosting Odoo Is a Dangerous Gamble

I recently heard from a developer who thought he had outsmarted the system. While others paid hundreds monthly for managed Odoo hosting, he was running his business on a $5 DigitalOcean droplet. "Why ...

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Aug 13, 2025 · 2 min read

The Hidden Cost of Merge Conflict Hell: Why Your Odoo Deployment Process is Breaking Your Team

Picture this: it's 6:48 PM, your coffee's gone cold, and you're staring at a screen full of tangled Git branches. You just got the notification to push your Odoo development to production, and that fa...

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Jul 24, 2025 · 7 min read

Why Odoo needs environement variables

Environment variables have become the gold standard for configuration management in modern software development. From Docker containers to cloud deployments, nearly every major platform and framework ...

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