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Its not actually cheap but im all for my proton enterprise plan.

Hertzner storage box for backups 1tb cheap as chips Daily backups from proxmox

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.

Im into fitness so: Lose it! and Hevy (dont know if there are good selfhosted alternatives)

Mullvad Bitwarden Goodnotes cuz im studying right now and make notes on my iPad

Bitwarden & PurelyMail for me.

I have just loaded $10 initially for PurelyMail & it works great for simple outbound emails from my homelab services.

VPN, iCloud in case I lose my drives, MEGA, Spotify

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.

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.

1Password NextDNS iCloud ProtonMail

Windscribe vpn. Got a special account for $10/year. Can't really selfhost vpn on 100+ location with $10.

$2 iCloud

$2 Google One

$10 UsenetServer

$59.95 /3 years, PIA VPN

I don't exactly have a VPS per se, but rather a CG-NAT bypass server to connect my home server to the open Internet. I sometimes used it as an external backup storage as well, but the server is cheap so the storage space available is minimal.

VPN, Cloud storage, cloud hosting.

Simplelogin... for random emails using my various domains.

Bitwarden for passwords
MXRoute for mail
Kagi for search
Backblaze B2 for offsite backups

I self host pi-hole, but I send them some money once in a while.

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.

Cloudflare + VPS

I self host vaultwarden but I also pay teh $10/year to support the project, I self host for Collections and I use the paid bitwarden at work since they do not allow ddns addresses in our network.

AirVPN but if you don't need port forwarding Mullvad is king.

A few:

1. YT Music
2. 1Password (technically I get it free from work, but I would pay if they switch or I change jobs)
3. Proton VPN , i am grandfathered into an older plan

Cloudflare (custom domain)

NextDNS

Zoho mail (you@customdomain.com)

Bitwarden is one of the few invoices I enjoy seeing. It means I get fantastic service for another year. The cost value for me is insane as I use it so many times a day.

Proton Suite

nextdns really like the custom dns overrides and the great tailscale integration

(Obvious disclosure, I am the one running the service)

If support for open source is what you are looking for, may I suggest taking a look at Communick? It basically takes the open source alternatives for social media and messaging platforms, and packages them for easy access and setup. There are packages for Mastodon, Lemmy or Matrix each of them for less than $10/year and fully managed. I'm pledging to take 20% of the profits and contribute to the upstream projects.

I pay like $5 a month for web hosting. Not worth it to self-host a public e-commerce site on my own network.

5$ VPS for email server

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.

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.

I pay for a good number of them. Not that I can't self-host alternatives. It is just easier:

• 1Password
• OneDrive
• B2 Storage (backing up OneDrive amongst other things)
• VPS

VPS for wire guard tunnel, because fucking ISP CGNAT $5/month

Usenet provider and private indexer roughly $10/month

Albeit more than 30 annually but I still consider cheap/good value:

Exchange online few domains streaming services (TV and music because WAF)

MXRoute, super cheap and awesome.

I pay for a bunch of stuff but it’s all self hosted. Bitwarden, opnsense, nginx proxy, uptime kuma, wikijs…

• tasks.org - $1/year
• ardour - $1/month
• tasker (autoapps on android) - $1/month

Don’t even use them anymore. But as I wouldn’t miss it, I’ll keep it going to support the devs.