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

VPNs, search engines, absolutely everything and anything.

  • the@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    21 hours ago

    Just domain for $11 a year.

    The home server is running on old laptop so I guess slight electricity too. ISP doesn’t really count since I work from home and need to pay for that anyway.

    I have lifetime Windscribe VPN and Koofr 1TB, which are not subscriptions.

  • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Domain for $8 a year and 300Mbps fiber for $45 a month which snake ass AT&T keeps increasing in 5 dollar increments, so thank you for reminding me to call Spectrum for a quote so I can then call AT&T and harass them into giving me the correct price for another year.

    • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 day ago

      call Spectrum for a quote so I can then call AT&T and harass them into giving me the correct price for another year.

      It’s a shitty business model. Over the years I’ve found that in order to get the most out of Spectrum it is necessary to be a royal asshole and live in their phones. Here in this locale, Spectrum contracted with the local schools to be their ISP, so Spectrum became a utility just like water, power, etc. We even have a complaint form on our official county’s website to facilitate being a royal asshole when necessary.

  • Epzillon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    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.

  • ohshit604@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 days ago

    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.

  • lustrum@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 days ago

    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.

  • captcha_incorrect@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    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.

  • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    VPNs, search engines, absolutely everything and anything.

    • Wireshark (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.

    • hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      If the VPN is for phoning home, of course there’s free client and server software.

      But if it’s for spoofing a different location, you either get found out, or you have to pay.

      I wanna live in a world where I do not pay for anything but there is stuff that you can only really get if you pay.

    • Squizzy@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      2 days ago

      I am very concerned about selfhosting and exposing my network to the internet. I thought people had VPS etc.

      • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 days ago

        A VPS is a Virtual Private Server, such as one would rent from a provider like digitalocean.com com or similar. Most of the crew here run their homelab off of equipment located in their residence. If a VPS is the path you’d like to take, then that would be a subscription. If you have equipment in your physical possession, that is yet another path. Either way, security is of utmost importance.