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

VPNs, search engines, absolutely everything and anything.

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[–] german@pawb.social 1 points 23 hours ago
  • Domain I bought like 4 years ago for 20€, I think it’s 13€/yr
  • A shitty VPN with port forwarding because I trust my ISP way less than I do the VPN, 36€/yr
  • iCloud+ Mail - it’s 1€/mo and gets past all spam filters, has catch-all and doesn’t get in my way much
  • ~0.05€/mo for network egress on a “free” GCP VM instance
  • 0€/mo for my main server (Oracle can get fucked though, reprehensible evil company!)

That’s it for the recurring costs related in any way to my homelab.