My Bitwarden renewal came through this morning. It’s still $10 per year. I was about to cancel, but I thought what the heck at $10, I’ll keep it on out of principle and to show support.
I also have a tutanota encrypted email, which costs little more than pocket change over the year. I hardly use it, but it’s there.
I wondered then, if this community had any little gems to share - services they pay for that are let’s say under $30 annually. I think we can exclude VPS, since lots of people will probably have them already.
I’m going to cross post at /r/opensource too.
Fastmail, LastPass and NordVPN
Hertzner storage box for backups 1tb cheap as chips Daily backups from proxmox
Do you encrypt the backups? I’m interested in learning more about this process.
If you are sending any of your data from your home lab to an outside server that you personally do not control then yes, you should ALWAYS encrypt the backups (unless it’s crap you don’t care about like your tax returns, credit card details, passwords, etc.)
How do you I encrypt the files before copying them to a remote server/storage?
Any other cheaper options? Not looking for a tb. Even 100gb is good with me.
Scaleway offer up to 75GB of their Object Storage for free and only start charging when you go over.
Bitwarden & PurelyMail for me.
I have just loaded $10 initially for PurelyMail & it works great for simple outbound emails from my homelab services.
Windscribe vpn. Got a special account for $10/year. Can’t really selfhost vpn on 100+ location with $10.
VPS for wire guard tunnel, because fucking ISP CGNAT $5/month
Usenet provider and private indexer roughly $10/month
$10/m for 1 provider and 1 indexer?
If you hunt around this black friday you should be able to get a better deal than that. For reference I have 1 unlimited provider (newshosting) for about $30/yr and 2 indexers each around $15/yr
Usenet provider and private indexer roughly $10/month
I should try those… I can never force myself to use them, but I bet they are amazing to have.
I’m tired of torrents…
Google Photos.
I pay $15 a month for unlimited storage.
Photos of my family are of the most important things to me so I’m paying out for guaranteed redundancy.
I still host a local photo storage version but I also backup everything to Google Photos.
Bitwarden for passwords
MXRoute for mail
Kagi for search
Backblaze B2 for offsite backupsI self host pi-hole, but I send them some money once in a while.
Fastmail and nextdns. I’m still paying for iCloud, but I intend to move everything to my local server.
I go on and off streaming services: Disney, Hulu, Netflix, HBO.
Amazon Prime, which includes a bunch of goodies.
Kindle Unlimited. I usually wait for promotions since there isn’t a ton of material I like that I haven’t read yet. Also I’m rather busy lately.
Proton Suite
My expressVPN 2year plan is about to expire in February. I am seriously considering switching to Proton, especially since I already use protonMail as the inbox for my Anonaddy instance. What’s your experience with Proton?
ChatGPT Plus is the only service I pay for. There’s literally no substitute in my experience. Even with 10 million dollars, I couldn’t effectively replace it with a self-hosted option.
Bitwarden is weird because it’s a service I could easily self host but I really don’t mind paying for because it’s pretty critical that it experiences maximum uptime and tinkering and I trust their data center. I also like supporting the company and I appreciate that the product just works.
Honestly, standard web hosting is far and away cheaper to outsource.
I pay Ionos $14 a month for unlimited space and unlimited bandwidth to host an unlimited amount of sites. It easier to let them handle the hosting and just redirect the sub-domains I need to my home server.
Most Redditor’s here in r/selfhosted have likely never felt the slashdot effect, and the havoc it creates. I’ve had two big posts hit Reddit frontpage over the years linking to my website, and Ionos handled 100k daily unique visitors without a hiccup. No Pi4 on AT&T home fiber could handle that.
Edit: Whoops, missed the under $30 qualifier, Still leaving this here though.
It’s not cheap, but I pay for Spotify because overall I’ve been pretty happy with it. It has a good selection of features, lots of content, and it works pretty well for the most part. The only real complaint that I have is that the offline mode isn’t great.
An actually cheap service that I pay for is addy.io, and even though I haven’t been using it much, so far it has been working pretty well.
I used to pay for Spotify, but they kept removing features I liked, and last time I used it, the Android app was just absolute garbage. They’re also missing alternate releases and bonus tracks on just about every album on there.
Their shuffle feature is also absolutely whack, it will play like the same 10 songs over and over from a playlist of hundreds of tracks.
Calendly. I wantwantwant to self-host Cal.com, but the only way I’ve ever made it work is via Cloudron. And if I’m gonna pay for Cloudron? I might as well just pay for Calendly.
Pushover. One time payment that covers lifetime push messages.