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

Service: Dropbox - Alternative: Nextcloud
Service: Google Reader - Alternative: Tiny Tiny RSS
Service: Blogger - Alternative: WordPress

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

Awesome-Selfhosted List of Software
Awesome-Sysadmin List of Software

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

communick@selfhosted.forum

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

submitted 11 months ago by softwarebuyer2015@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum

167 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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 4) 17 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

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

Proton Mail ($5ish a month for me?), Jira/Conflience (free), and password manager.

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

Even though I have a lifetime LastPass subscripion I still choose to pay the $10 bucks and stay with Bitwarden not just becuse I wanted the yubikey support, its also just so simple to use and I love its simplicity. Its also polite and does not bring any extra bloatware. Its really quite good value. It just does its job really nicely

[–] Candle1ight@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Email (Tutanota), Cloud backups (B2), VPN (Mullvad)

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

Sneakemail. Just paid the $36 for my 10th year. Great having a fully unique, obfuscated, and permanent email for everyone you communicate with that you can also send from.

As with all email, I'm vested so switching is a burden. But this may be the year.

The domain is being rejected more often lately, so I can't use it to create accounts like I used to. Competitors like SimpleLogin/ProtonPass alias offer more for less ($30/year or bundled), but what if they end up suffering the same fate?

[–] touche112@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Google Photos. We pay for 2TB and have all the family member slots loaded up. It's perfect because my parents and my in-laws all use Android phones.

[–] s3r3ng@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Bitwarden, Paid addy.io, protonmail paid via crypto, privacy.com virtual credit cards, MySudo voip numbers, a jmp.chat number or two.

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

I pay for bitwarden because it's so cheap, and yet I love what they offer. It's able to be selfhosted, which is why I'm willing to trust it. The service I pay for is protonvpn. I need a vpn just for a few generic things like bypassing locked down networks that prevent me from using ssh, and I trust protonvpn enough to use it for smth like that.

[–] art_of_onanism@alien.top 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Asian VPS to bypass GFW in China so I can go on Google and such

load more comments (1 replies)

load more comments