this post was submitted on 15 Nov 2023
4 points (100.0% liked)

Self-Hosted Main

504 readers
1 users here now

A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don't control.

For Example

We welcome posts that include suggestions for good self-hosted alternatives to popular online services, how they are better, or how they give back control of your data. Also include hints and tips for less technical readers.

Useful Lists

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

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.

(page 3) 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] LavaCreeperBOSSB@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I only pay for iCloud+ for mail

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

Strongbox App for iOs, allows me to access my Keepass password file on my iPhone.

[–] die9991@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I think my domain is basically what I pay for.

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

I pay for my own domain name hands down the best investment, as little as 1€ per month and you get a lot more option for your homeland/vps/mail or whatever you have.

[–] Putrid_Message_8256@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Why not just self host Bitwarden, or Vaultwarden?

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

Spotify. Todoist and bitwarden.

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

Quite a bit of stuff: Fastmail, domain registrar, Spotify, Netflix, Prime Video, Apple TV+, Microsoft Office 365 Family subscription (includes 1 Tb storage for 6 family members), GitHub copilot.

[–] zack822@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Bitwarden.. for me its for 2 reasons. One I dont have to deal with keeping something that needs to be super secure up to date. and 2 it help continue the project and its 10 bucks. I spend more then that one dumber stuff.

[–] _RootZero@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago
  1. Borgbase for server backup
  2. Vps for CGNAT
  3. Protonvpn/Mullvad
  4. Tutanota (Although I don't like the recent changes they are making)

Don't know if donations count but I try to periodically donate to these projects I could not live without

  1. Signal
  2. Grapheneos
  3. Fdroid
  4. Smarttube

I'd likely start paying for bitwarden even though I don't have much need for any premium services because just realized this is one of those services I can't live without.

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

spotify. It just works and has most music I want to.

nordVPN - not sure if it is good, but I wanted to have a vpn service.

ditched netflix recently due to woke culture.

oh, and cheap domain. But that cannot be self-hosted.

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

I don't get this. So bitwarden knows all your passwords? Doesn't that kind of make you feel uneasy?

[–] Daniel15@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I have a $5/year MXRoute account that I still use even though I self-host my emails. I use MXRoute as an outbound SMTP relay since they've got all the IP reputation stuff figured out.

I know you said to exclude VPS, but I've got some of VPSes around the $15-$50 per year range, since it's nice having my sites hosted on higher-end enterprise-grade hardware than what I'm using at home.

I'm considering paying for Kagi (a paid search engine) because it's ad-free and the results are legitimately better than Google.

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

Deezer - better sound quality than Spotify - good family plan Bitwarden - of course MS365 - family plan for $100 a year. 1Tb cloud storage, and all the MS apps for 5 up to ppl

[–] Im1Random@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I pay for a small VPS thats running my mail server and other extremely important services.

[–] ro55mo@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

An AWS S3 bucket to sync important files off site. £1 a month.

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

I'm paying a cheap VPS for stuff that I want to be 100% available. Like vaultwarden and Authentik for example.

But services, hmm let me see. Does Netflix count as I have plex? Nvm I pay both monthly, did not buy the plex lifetime pass yet. But for Netflix I recently switched my payment to turkey via vpn. Price is less than 1/3rd now.

[–] ilco1@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

a .xyz domein .i just can be botherd to paying a lot for a domein . 2x dedicated servers for all the thing i self host.(28 euro with a 6 tb space total between the 2)(oneprovider decent space /speed but old hardware/isos /their raid options kinda suck)

kinda wish they kept there images up to date .it sucks to update ubuntu with ofline repo mirrors .i keep using debian because of it

i am also planning on maybe getting a cheap license trough patrion for photoprism

(i dont have a creditcard being a person in the eu .leaving me with only paypal as a payment option)

i would like to suport more opensource projects.

but im constraind mostly by my hosting cost /buget

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

BackBlaze, 1Password, mxroute, Spotify, different usenet indexers

Thats about it

[–] dcw3@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I have selfhosted email for 10-15 domains for about 20 years (qmail toaster, then mailinabox). I also pay for fastmail.com and purelymail.com so that I have email addresses that still work if my hosting goes down. I host on AWS, and if something goes wrong with my AWS account, I need a way to communicate with AWS that doesn't require servers running in the affected account.

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

Real-Debrid. €3/Month.

Too good to pass.

load more comments
view more: ‹ prev next ›