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

VPNs, search engines, absolutely everything and anything.

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[–] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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

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