Selfhosted

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 was £50 for 10 years.
Usenet is £25 every 12 months.
Scaleway for a backup is about £1 a month.

Then I pay £10 a month for ente.io. I have all my familys on my account and I don't want to be in charge of self hosting it.

Password manager for 10€/y and webspace which is free cuz I host some websites for money

Easynews and nzbgeek.

Well worth the 30euro each per year.

It really depends on which services you need besides whatever hardware you have lying around.

For me it's a bit higher, as I used to host all my stuff on a rented dedicated box. Having an always on server in my bedroom didn't work for me, I have moved out since and built a local sever.

• Dedicated Hetzner server + 10TB storage box: ~75€/month
• Netcup VPS (external monitoring): ~6.50€/month
• Kavita+ subscription for additional features: 5 USD/month (I think)
• Various domains: not sure, I have ~7 domains so another ~100€/year
• Mail: 90USD/year
• VPN: ~50USD/year (forgot to track this expense, oops)
• Backblaze B2: ~2€/month

If you only need a public IP to reach your stuff, an even cheaper VPS should suffice.

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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.

Many thousand dollars sunk into hardware. The electricity bill, I guess. Other than that, Mullvad is probably the only running cost related to self-hosting.

Mullvad vpn. That's it.

I have internet at home, an electricity bill. A few domains and a VPS.

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.

• 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.

$2 per year for my domain name.