I am trying to capture costs for starting into homelab/selfhosting.

VPNs, search engines, absolutely everything and anything.

        • sbeak@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          4·
          2 months ago

          Planned obsolescence means that the thigh high socks degrade quickly, forcing consumers to purchase new pairs more often than they really need too. The fabrics are now less resistant to excessive sweat, moisture, and oils. Shrinkflation also means you get less sock for the same amount of money, increasing the margins for the sock megacorporations. Additionally, the missing sock ghost (who routinely steals socks from a pairs leaving victims with just the one) has struck a deal with Big Programmer Socks to increase the number of lost sock pairs over time in exchange for a large share of the profits.

      • djdarren@piefed.socialEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        Electricity $200 Off-site backup $130 FOSS project donations $800 Thigh-high socks $3600 Domains £150

        someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying

        • dogs0n@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          3·
          2 months ago

          Im good at the economy. If you turn off the electricity you have an extra $300 for your Thigh-high socks

    • some_random_nick@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      2 months ago

      Since you are paying, it seems to be worth it. I read a lot of mixed opinions online. What do you find there that you can’t on torrent sites? Or is it just ease of use?

      • Lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        31·
        2 months ago

        Ease of use (once it’s set up). Getting it set up is the tricky part, but it’s just tedious more than anything else.

        I actually have two subscriptions, one for the newsgroup and one for the indexer. The newsgroup access is monthly while the indexer is annual, like $12/yr or something, stupid cheap.

        Absolutely worth it.

  • czl@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    11·
    2 months ago
    • Domain for about 15/year
    • Proton unlimited (mostly mail, SimpleLogin, vpn) about 90/year
    • Nabu casa (not that I need it, but to support development) 75/year

    I spend a lot more money on donations to the open source stuff I’m running, but they are not strictly speaking “subscriptions”. Self hosting for me isn’t about cost, it’s about data ownership.

  • captcha_incorrect@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    2 months ago

    Aside from domain costs, I don’t pay for any extra services in regards to my homelab. I pay for email as well because I don’t want to manage that.

  • mlg@lemmy.world
    English
    5·
    2 months ago

    Domain for $8 a year and 300Mbps fiber for $45 a month which snake ass AT&T keeps increasing in 5 dollar increments, so thank you for reminding me to call Spectrum for a quote so I can then call AT&T and harass them into giving me the correct price for another year.

    • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      call Spectrum for a quote so I can then call AT&T and harass them into giving me the correct price for another year.

      It’s a shitty business model. Over the years I’ve found that in order to get the most out of Spectrum it is necessary to be a royal asshole and live in their phones. Here in this locale, Spectrum contracted with the local schools to be their ISP, so Spectrum became a utility just like water, power, etc. We even have a complaint form on our official county’s website to facilitate being a royal asshole when necessary.

  • Aniki@feddit.orgEnglish
    4·
    2 months ago

    donations to lemmy devs and 2 fediverse servers are $10/month each, so $30/month total.

  • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
    41·
    2 months ago

    VPNs, search engines, absolutely everything and anything.

    • Wireshark Wireguard (VPN): free
    • SearxNG (Search Engine): free
    • Equipment: widely varies

    The whole idea of selfhosting is to cut out corporate subscriptions and to retain your privacy, security, anonymity, and data.

    • hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      If the VPN is for phoning home, of course there’s free client and server software.

      But if it’s for spoofing a different location, you either get found out, or you have to pay.

      I wanna live in a world where I do not pay for anything but there is stuff that you can only really get if you pay.

      • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        But if it’s for spoofing

        Yeah. I just thu that in there thinking that in as an example. Of course, you’re right, you’d get clinked.

    • Squizzy@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      I am very concerned about selfhosting and exposing my network to the internet. I thought people had VPS etc.

      • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        A VPS is a Virtual Private Server, such as one would rent from a provider like digitalocean.com com or similar. Most of the crew here run their homelab off of equipment located in their residence. If a VPS is the path you’d like to take, then that would be a subscription. If you have equipment in your physical possession, that is yet another path. Either way, security is of utmost importance.

          • TheMadCodger@piefed.socialEnglish
            3·
            2 months ago

            Tailscale is a layer on top of wireguard and is a VPN. Don’t open your home to the outside world, that’s just asking for trouble.

            Tailscale is a great choice for you at this stage for accessing your stuff from anywhere and not worrying about anyone else. Downside is if Tailscale decides to enshittify some day you (a lot of us) will have to figure what our next move is.

            For the casual and/or beginner, it really is an excellent service even at the free tier.

            • doctorflynt@feddit.orgEnglish
              1·
              2 months ago

              i dont have that much knowledge about security, but would it be reasonable to expose a single raspberry in a dmz behind a firewall as a headscale vps?

              i mean it would be hard for an attacker to get past the physical firewall into the main network, right?

              on the other hand they wouldnt need to get past the firewall if they take over the headscale server… edit: but that would also happen, if a vps hosted somewhere else, got infected, right?

          • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            2 months ago

            Tailscale is a VPN (Virtual Private Network) which is different than a VPS (Virtual Private Server).

            ETA: Oops. I see your question has been answered multiple times. It seems you are a beginner at selfhosting and trying to get a grip on what’s necessary to start and trying to wrap your brain around all the acronyms. There is absolutely no shame in being a beginner. Everyone in this community was a beginner at some point in their life. So, don’t be bashful about asking questions. I’ve found the folks here to be patient and helpful.

      • tjoa@feddit.orgEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        Selfhosting on a VPS can have its use cases (piracy). If you are worried about exposing it to the internet just don’t and ise company profiles on your devices to automatically connect your network using VPN

  • lustrum@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    Domain was £50 for 10 years.
    Usenet is £25 every 12 months.
    Scaleway for a backup is about £1 a month.

    Then I pay £10 a month for ente.io. I have all my familys on my account and I don’t want to be in charge of self hosting it.

  • prenatal_confusion@feddit.orgEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    Domain and vps about 20 per year.

    Spotify not because I am missing a navidrome server. But because I sometimes need the huge catalogue of it to browse.

    Edit: 70 for protonvpn. Need those Linux isos.

      • prenatal_confusion@feddit.orgEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        It’s a vps from ionos and the 1€ per month was actually the 1gb ram version. I have since upgraded to a 3€ with 4gb I think so not entirely accurate. Domain is afaik 1 per month.

    • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      Wonky Coffee

      Never heard of them, checked it out. That’s a noble cause. I think we Americans especially, waste so much food it’s downright embarrassing. Yet we make laws that say it is prohibited to feed the homeless. That’s unconscionable imho. I strongly feel, we as a society, have a moral obligation to our fellow man to help when help is needed, no matter who they are or how they came to be in need.