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What Are Your Recurring Costs? (lazysoci.al)

submitted 5 months ago by sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to c/selfhost@lemmy.ml

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I know it's a rude question, but it's been on my mind… I'm wondering roughly what I should be expecting to outlay when I finish my set-up? So I'm assuming it includes things like domain names, hosting for backups, email providers, VPN, etc. What's a good budget to set?

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[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Impossible to say without providing more details. But somewhere between 10€ and 200€ a month depending on your setup and how you calculate in hardware costs.

[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

200€? 🤯

[–] wolfshadowheart@kbin.social 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Power, Domain Name (if using a standard paid one instead of the cheaper route), VPN are the 3 that I pay for that I feel are the bare minimum.

I pay for a domain that's $12, but you could easily get the $1 ones for the same purposes. I pay for a static and service VPN with Windscribe, which comes out to be like $35+$89 respectively. So that's already $136 a year excluding the cost of power. I could cut that cost easily, but I use them for more than just my selfhosting so I feel like it's a fair price for what I get out of it.

[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 1 points 5 months ago

It seems a few people are using them for more than just self-hosting, which is quite cool

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Well, I am paying less, but if you realistically calculate the costs of hardware over its lifetime, this is certainly not unrealistic for many homelabs.

[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 1 points 5 months ago

Realistically thinking, my domain name, email, VPN and IPTV are the only things I'm gonna be paying for in the next few months. If that came to £200 a month, I'd die 😭