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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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[–] deliriousdreams@fedia.io 1 points 21 hours ago

You said anything so I guess. VPN is like... $4 a month (that's what the math works out to for my three year sub).

Cloud service is like $10 a month

Music: $15 a month

Nebula: $5 a month

Password Manager: $1.33 a month

Internet: $90 a month

Phone: $30

Wikipedia: $5 a month

Servo: $5 a month

404 Media: $8.33 a month

That's all I can think of off the top of my head unless you want like rent and utilities and that.