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[–] meonkeys@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

5 costs of self-hosting by Ty Sherback is good but I had the opposite experience re: electricity costs... it's been much cheaper than cloud hosting for me

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

My server and associated peripherals run me $30+/- monthly. I recently did some adjustments with the help of tlp and a few other apps to see if I could slim that down a few dollars. I'm waiting until the end of the month to do some comparisons. All in all tho, $30 is probably well below what most people would spend on any other hobby.