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What Are Your Recurring Costs? (lazysoci.al)

submitted 6 months ago by sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to c/selfhost@lemmy.ml

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I know it's a rude question, but it's been on my mind… I'm wondering roughly what I should be expecting to outlay when I finish my set-up? So I'm assuming it includes things like domain names, hosting for backups, email providers, VPN, etc. What's a good budget to set?

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[–] KeepFlying@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (7 children)

I largely run raspberry pis so my electric costs are likely minimal (I've never calculated it). Besides that:

PIA VPN: ~$4/mo
Digital Ocean Droplet + Backup snapshots: $7/mo
Domains: ~$25/year
Backblaze B2 backups: $7/mo

[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 4 points 6 months ago (6 children)

Thanks actually quite reasonable.

[–] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Self hosting is actually crazy cheap compared to any kind of corporate solution. Anybody paying for SquareSpace, for instance, could cut their cost by a factor of 20 or more with a FOSS alternative like Ghost Blog.

I know my setup is over engineered a little so I pay a bit more, but my expenses are still under $100 per year for subscription services that support the self hosting.

$2.50 per month for a VPN.

$40 per year for two VPS’s (this is what I know I overpay for since I didn’t really know how much I needed when I set it up, but the time to change it is worth more to me than the extra $10 per year).

$17ish per year for a domain name.

Plex lifetime pass (around $100 one time).

And of course, ten million dollars in man hours spent learning how to use Linux.

[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Those man hours rack up, but I bet you still feel exhilarated when you get something working or fix something.

[–] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

My wife says she wishes she could make me scream like Linux does. I told her she would if I could put it in her bash.

She leaves me alone when I’m on the computer now. It’s quiet in here.

[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 1 points 6 months ago

😂😂😂

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