I am trying to capture costs for starting into homelab/selfhosting.
VPNs, search engines, absolutely everything and anything.
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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.
- 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.
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Usenet access and domain registration are my only costs. Under $150 all in annually.
The only subscription I have is Mullvad.
Any issues torrenting?
Password manager for 10€/y and webspace which is free cuz I host some websites for money
Which password manager do you use?
Oh it’s actually more like 20€/y i just realized, $19,80 to be exact. Bitwarden. But there was a post the other day that enshittification is going to start soon so idk what I will get then. If there is no good alternative I will probably start selfhosting that too
Run your own Vaultwarden service. Its FOSS, and works with Bitwarden clients.
I currently pay for Bitwarden and self host Vaultwarden. As long as we can still use the Bitwarden app with Vaultwarden, I won’t have a problem.
There isn’t another password solution I want to use currently.
If we lose that self-hosted feature for Vaultwarden I will jump ship to a keepass compliant solution.
I guess we could still fork the current Bitwarden client?
I would hope so. That and the extensions.
I’m in the same boat and looking for alternatives.
The first one I tried was Psono, basics worked ok but I didn’t like how there was no keybinding to auto fill passwords. Another negative was the session handling, you’d either need a complete login including 2FA or keep the session active at all times without any prompt for the master password even after a restart.
Run your own vaultwarden, you get to use all the bitwarden things for free. With rumours of enshitification coming let the people who do not do the self hosting pay for the development. If I had the money to donate I would have stopped the moment I heard the enshitification rumours.
I don’t want to worry about my password manager being down if I ever have a total outage for any reason
i swapped to proton pass
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.
- 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.
Various domains: 200ish $/year
ISP: 1000ish/yearUhh i think i pay $70 every couple years for a vpn and thats kinda that.
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.
What are you using those 6 domains for? Genuine question btw
Two are fedi instances, one is “official (related to my legal name)” and mostly used for email, one for personal selfhosted stuff I want to access from outside without vpn (like this Lemmy instance), one used to be a local concert calendar which I sunset so it’s not needed anymore. Currently forgot the sixth one lol
I have also like quite some domains.
One just firstnamelastname to have it
One for homelabbing
One for business
One, because I thought firstname@lastname.email was a cool idea. Now all my accounts run through it and I cannot change it anymore :/
One for my old startup, where I just like the name to much
One for another old business, but my mailserver runs through that domain, and it is too much of a bother to change that 😅
So, remember folks: don’t buy too many domains, it becomes a liability.
0.26€/kWh? Jeez I thought $0.14 CAD during peak was bad
Yeah it’s like that in Europe. Part of it is covered by my mini photovoltaic (600Wp), but that’s not enough.
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
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.
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.
is that a bundle, or are you rally paying like $0.50 a month for a VPS?
It’s a vps from ionos and the 1€ per month was actually the 1gb ram version. I have since upgraded to a 3€ with 4gb I think so not entirely accurate. Domain is afaik 1 per month.
- 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.
