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[non self hosted] : Cheap Services You Still Pay For (alien.top)
submitted 11 months ago by softwarebuyer2015@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum
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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.

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[–] gluebabie@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (4 children)

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.

[–] linuswong@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I took the time to teach my kids how to use a password manager with Bitwarden on my self hosted instance. But my wife asked me what's going to happen if I die. I'm confident in minimal downtime while I'm alive, but it's important that my family's passwords can outlive me. So I wound up purchasing the family plan.

[–] Jealy@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I hate to say it, but "this".

It works fantastically, it's not expensive, it's one of the more critical services in my stack, and I get to support the company.

No brainer.

[–] rayjaymor85@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Same.

I could absolutely self-host it, but at the price they charge it makes no sense to do so especially as it means I can support it's development.

[–] MrSliff84@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

No problems with uptime running vaultwarden as a docker on a hetzner vm. Only thing I am missing is some sort of SSO integration.