My Bitwarden renewal came through this morning. It’s still $10 per year. I was about to cancel, but I thought what the heck at $10, I’ll keep it on out of principle and to show support.
I also have a tutanota encrypted email, which costs little more than pocket change over the year. I hardly use it, but it’s there.
I wondered then, if this community had any little gems to share - services they pay for that are let’s say under $30 annually. I think we can exclude VPS, since lots of people will probably have them already.
I’m going to cross post at /r/opensource too.
Bitwarden and Email.
I trust a company like Bitwarden to handle uptime of my password manager more than I do myself. If most of my selfhosted services went down, I’m gonna be a little annoyed, but I can survive. If Bitwarden goes down, that’s a real PITA.
And email, because f**k trying to self host email successfully, I’ve accepted I’ll just have to use a commercial provider for emails. I’ll try and set up a self hosted server at some point, but on a separate domain and most likely just to mess around/learn.
$2 iCloud
$2 Google One
$10 UsenetServer
$59.95 /3 years, PIA VPN
PIA 3 years for like 80$
Seedbox for, I dont even know
and icloud for a dollar a month
Cloudflare + VPS
Simplelogin… for random emails using my various domains.
Bitwarden for passwords
MXRoute for mail
Kagi for search
Backblaze B2 for offsite backupsI self host pi-hole, but I send them some money once in a while.
What are your thoughts on Kagi? How does it compare to Google/Bing/etc?
AirVPN but if you don’t need port forwarding Mullvad is king.
I self host vaultwarden but I also pay teh $10/year to support the project, I self host for Collections and I use the paid bitwarden at work since they do not allow ddns addresses in our network.
Honestly, standard web hosting is far and away cheaper to outsource.
I pay Ionos $14 a month for unlimited space and unlimited bandwidth to host an unlimited amount of sites. It easier to let them handle the hosting and just redirect the sub-domains I need to my home server.
Most Redditor’s here in r/selfhosted have likely never felt the slashdot effect, and the havoc it creates. I’ve had two big posts hit Reddit frontpage over the years linking to my website, and Ionos handled 100k daily unique visitors without a hiccup. No Pi4 on AT&T home fiber could handle that.
Edit: Whoops, missed the under $30 qualifier, Still leaving this here though.
Nice try, Ionos team
You mean cloud hosting vs hosting the site on a private server? - I always assumed most small-scale sites are just cloud hosted. And what do you mean by “redirect the sub-domains I need to my home server”? What would you do that for? Routing a subset to your home server?
I’ve been self-hosting my own websites for over a decade, and while the hug-death of the “slashdot effect” can be real, it is a statistical anomoly and a absurd as a rationale against self-hosting. It is actually cheaper ($ wise) to self-host with equipment you already have. Certs are $0 with LE, everything else is just setting up systems (websites) on equipment you already run and pay for. It is a lie to say that that’s somehow more expensive than $14/mo.
If someone chooses to pay for hosting elsewhere, that’s one thing, but don’t sell the lie that it’s cheaper. It’s not.
As for the 100k/day unique traffic, that depends on the website served. If it’s a fully static site and your setup is tuned, yeah you can actually handle that.
How do you find Ionos for keeping up to date? My experience with shared web hosts is they’ll be on PHP 7.x or something while PHP 8.2 is the current stable version.
Which plan are you using with ionos for unlimited amount of sites? If you have a link that would be great
I don’t exactly have a VPS per se, but rather a CG-NAT bypass server to connect my home server to the open Internet. I sometimes used it as an external backup storage as well, but the server is cheap so the storage space available is minimal.
A few:
- YT Music
- 1Password (technically I get it free from work, but I would pay if they switch or I change jobs)
- Proton VPN , i am grandfathered into an older plan
VPN, Cloud storage, cloud hosting.
nextdns really like the custom dns overrides and the great tailscale integration
(Obvious disclosure, I am the one running the service)
If support for open source is what you are looking for, may I suggest taking a look at Communick? It basically takes the open source alternatives for social media and messaging platforms, and packages them for easy access and setup. There are packages for Mastodon, Lemmy or Matrix each of them for less than $10/year and fully managed. I’m pledging to take 20% of the profits and contribute to the upstream projects.
