Selfhosted

4€ a month for a VPS. Used to host a wireguard VPN and make my home server publicly accessible with restrictions

25€ a year for the domain name.

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Last year I spent around £60 per months on subscriptions only. Plus internet £35, so nearly £100. This year I've stopped Apple (iCloud bs+), prime, Spotify, audible and replaced those with FOSS, this year a one time payment per year to a Usenet service, £60, and a vps at £5 months, the experience has changed and after a bit of adaptation it all now feels so much better than the shackled experience I used to have. Love everything about it! So all in all I used to have a budget of around £1200/year and now it's down to half of that and the experience is far far far better. I recommend it.! Would be interested now to look at what can be done with IPTV.

Domain is about $15/yr

Email for my domain is $20/yr

VPN is about $50/yr

Hosting for two:

• Domain - $300/yr (it's a great domain, don't judge me.)
• Proton Duo - $180/yr
• Kagi Duo - $168/yr
• Nabu Casa (Home Assistant) - $65/yr
• Donations to FOSS projects & initiatives - $250/yr
• Lingering security camera subscription (next to go) - $120/yr
• ISP Unlimited Data - $600/yr gofuckyourselfISP
• Typical added network load ~50W - $131/yr
• ~10yr Hardware Upgrades - $200/yr

I just upgraded my home storage setup, so offsite backup is now running at my parents house, saving me ~$250/yr (but probably costing them ~$50/yr in added utility costs)

• Domain 15€/yr
• Music 8.50€/month (trying to convince my girlfriend to move from Spotify to Qobuz

That is it I think. I don't consider internet/water/electricity subscriptions as much as utilities.

Can't really afford anything else right now because my girlfriend as a cafe owner only brings in around 1200€/month or so working >60hr/week and we have a full renovation to pay for.

I want to dedicate like 10-20€/month to FOSS I use once the situation is better.

Technically, £0

I do have use Mullvad VPN, but not really for any of my hosting, and I do have a Hetzner VPS for my own site, which I have started using to access things. But I can access it all with Tailscale, which is free, as long as I can remember port numbers.

But with those taken into account;

Mullvad: £5 VPS: £15 Domain registration: £35pa

So all told it's about £22 a month.

I do need to look into donating to some of the services I use the most though.

There are subscription costs for homelabbing?

• 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.

I pay for

My domain: $75 for 5 years

Usenet newsgroup access: $75 a year

Internet: $100 a month.

Suggest paying for a mini PC and hosting off of that opposed to a VPS, having a dedicated machine to tinker with is much easier, just have to beat the upfront cost.

RPi also works but can get sluggish quite easily.

For my homelab:

Mullvad: ~$6/month Domain: $8/year

And whatever cost for electricity for running a singular mini PC, Pi4, and my synology.

Cost isn't much.

Yearly:

• ~80€ for 6 domains (using all of them)
• 125€ electricity (480kWh, 0,26€/kWh)
• 540€ VPSes (joint projects where other admins have access, not entirely paid by myself though, still planning to migrate one of them into homelab)

Not counting ISP since we have that anyways.

I don't think you need too many subscriptions for self-hosting. Just the domain. And that's only if you want to be fancy. You can just use an IP address. Or services like Netbird give you a free domain (whatever.netbird.cloud). Uh, what else. Uh, the electricity subscription? My server idles at about 70w. It runs 24/7. (Netbird and Tailscale are free options for creating VPNs.)

That's kinda the point of self-hosting that you don't have subscriptions.

starting into homelab/selfhosting.

There is a 1-time up-front cost though. You need to acquire hardware and right now AI is messing everything up. Hardware is at an all time high. Maybe you can find more affordable used hardware somewhere.

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

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.

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.

Domain only. Maybe $20 a year. Selfhosting email and VPN.

Usenet access and domain registration are my only costs. Under $150 all in annually.

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.

• Domain: $12/year
• Small VPS: $60/year
• Offsite Backup: $80/year
• Electricity: ?? I haven’t broken it out.

All in, that’s $152/year. I’m probably going to add another $132/year if/when I can convince the rest of the family to move away from Gmail.

The VPS is for a few services that I don’t want to go down if my home internet connect goes down. And offsite backups are a must for me.

$6.50 for nabu casa (home assistant cloud)

For startup costs, ~80€ for a used micro PC a few years back (+100€ for a 1TB SSD for it).

Since then

• 6€/yr domain
• 48€/yr email (proton plus using domain above)
• I'm thinking of setting up Backblaze B2 for offsite backup, should be ~20€/yr for about 250GB stored continuously if I calculated right

I never bothered with electricity costs, since it's a small micro PC. It probably uses sub 20W average, which, next to an AC, fridge, and WFH costs, has to be negligible, the cost of buying a measuring device in itself is probably not worth it

I only pay for two .ca domain names, I originally was not self hosting when I got the first one so it is rather expensive as I use a different email address for every service/site I sign up for. I get next to no spam. The next domain I have as a test domain, I will be using it to test out things before I commit to them being on my main domain.

The first domain is something expensive, as they are currently doing all the hosting, the second one was something like $11 or $12. Once I get my test setup running I will move my main one over to my self hosted system.