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[non self hosted] : Cheap Services You Still Pay For (alien.top)

submitted 1 year 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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[–] sowhatidoit@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Do you encrypt the backups? I'm interested in learning more about this process.

[–] UndeadCircus@alien.top 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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.)

[–] MalcolmY@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

How do you I encrypt the files before copying them to a remote server/storage?

[–] Johannesboy1@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Restic is great for that, deduplication and snapshots as well

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