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That’s it for the recurring costs related in any way to my homelab.
Domain about 10 per year (I pay for multiple years at a time), internet 55 per month with a static IP address
Beyond that I have a vpn that I use but was an early adopter so I have a lifetime subscription which cost me like a hundred bucks so call that 10 per year and getting less as time goes by, I have three other domain names not related to my homelab and webhosting also not related to my homelab. But by the time next year I should no longer be paying for any hosting. I bought a lifetime plexpass when it was like 125. Beyond that the costs are hardware and electricity and I just put an Enphase System Controller 3 and an IQ Combiner 5 on the house with 7.2kw of panels going on over the next few months and a couple IQ Battery 5P's so my power use for my homelab is basically covered.
$2 per year for my domain name.
I have internet at home, an electricity bill. A few domains and a VPS.
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.
Mullvad vpn. That's 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.
domain: $70 / year
VPS: $200 / year (~$17 / month)
everything else is basically free, for backups i use cloudflare R2's free plan and my local machine, i don't have media/storage servers so it's more than enough
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.
Easynews and nzbgeek.
Well worth the 30euro each per year.