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What Are Your Recurring Costs? (lazysoci.al)
submitted 2 years ago by 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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[–] 6 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

I largely run raspberry pis so my electric costs are likely minimal (I've never calculated it). Besides that:

  • PIA VPN: ~$4/mo

  • Digital Ocean Droplet + Backup snapshots: $7/mo

  • Domains: ~$25/year

  • Backblaze B2 backups: $7/mo

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Thanks actually quite reasonable.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Self hosting is actually crazy cheap compared to any kind of corporate solution. Anybody paying for SquareSpace, for instance, could cut their cost by a factor of 20 or more with a FOSS alternative like Ghost Blog.

    I know my setup is over engineered a little so I pay a bit more, but my expenses are still under $100 per year for subscription services that support the self hosting.

    $2.50 per month for a VPN.

    $40 per year for two VPS’s (this is what I know I overpay for since I didn’t really know how much I needed when I set it up, but the time to change it is worth more to me than the extra $10 per year).

    $17ish per year for a domain name.

    Plex lifetime pass (around $100 one time).

    And of course, ten million dollars in man hours spent learning how to use Linux.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Those man hours rack up, but I bet you still feel exhilarated when you get something working or fix something.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It really isnt bad. I do most of my computer at home so I really only need a small cloud box to pipe things through when needed.

    And I could reduce the B2 price a lot with some deduping of my data, but that's an ongoing and painfully slow process since I was too reckless with my local backups in the past, so $7 to avoid that process is worth it.

    And for electric I suspect it's pretty low. I'm running 3 raspberry pi, a 4 bay NAS, and one micro PC and I live in an area with pretty cheap electric already. I think my gaming machine probably takes more power in a few hours than the rest of the system does in a day.

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