Domain is about $15/yr

Email for my domain is $20/yr

VPN is about $50/yr

There are subscription costs for homelabbing?

• 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.

and here I thought the idea was to avoid to have subscriptions 🤣

Hosting for two:

• Domain - $300/yr (it's a great domain, don't judge me.)
• Proton Duo - $180/yr
• Kagi Duo - $168/yr
• Nabu Casa (Home Assistant) - $65/yr
• Donations to FOSS projects & initiatives - $250/yr
• Lingering security camera subscription (next to go) - $120/yr
• ISP Unlimited Data - $600/yr gofuckyourselfISP
• Typical added network load ~50W - $131/yr
• ~10yr Hardware Upgrades - $200/yr

I just upgraded my home storage setup, so offsite backup is now running at my parents house, saving me ~$250/yr (but probably costing them ~$50/yr in added utility costs)

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.

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.

I pay ~$15/mo for Usenet so I can get...news...easily.... 👀

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 for $8 a year and 300Mbps fiber for $45 a month which snake ass AT&T keeps increasing in 5 dollar increments, so thank you for reminding me to call Spectrum for a quote so I can then call AT&T and harass them into giving me the correct price for another year.

I pay for

My domain: $75 for 5 years

Usenet newsgroup access: $75 a year

Internet: $100 a month.

$6.50 for nabu casa (home assistant cloud)

VPNs, search engines, absolutely everything and anything.

• Wireshark Wireguard (VPN): free
• SearxNG (Search Engine): free
• Equipment: widely varies

The whole idea of selfhosting is to cut out corporate subscriptions and to retain your privacy, security, anonymity, and data.

Wonky Coffee, about £30 per month.

Hey, you did say anything and everything...!

I don't think you need too many subscriptions for self-hosting. Just the domain. And that's only if you want to be fancy. You can just use an IP address. Or services like Netbird give you a free domain (whatever.netbird.cloud). Uh, what else. Uh, the electricity subscription? My server idles at about 70w. It runs 24/7. (Netbird and Tailscale are free options for creating VPNs.)

That's kinda the point of self-hosting that you don't have subscriptions.

starting into homelab/selfhosting.

There is a 1-time up-front cost though. You need to acquire hardware and right now AI is messing everything up. Hardware is at an all time high. Maybe you can find more affordable used hardware somewhere.

• 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.

Domain only. Maybe $20 a year. Selfhosting email and VPN.

ISP: $75/month for symmetrical 1Gbit fiber and unlimited data. This is the biggest expense. All other options are 1-25 Mbps up with cable or dsl and most are just as expensive.

VPSs: around $40/month, though I'm planning to cut back a bit as I'm moving some stuff local.

2 Domains: < $30/year

The rest is purchased with no future subscription costs. This covers everything except for the security cams that I need to migrate off of corporate services one of these days.

The only subscription I have is Mullvad.

It really depends on which services you need besides whatever hardware you have lying around.

For me it's a bit higher, as I used to host all my stuff on a rented dedicated box. Having an always on server in my bedroom didn't work for me, I have moved out since and built a local sever.

• Dedicated Hetzner server + 10TB storage box: ~75€/month
• Netcup VPS (external monitoring): ~6.50€/month
• Kavita+ subscription for additional features: 5 USD/month (I think)
• Various domains: not sure, I have ~7 domains so another ~100€/year
• Mail: 90USD/year
• VPN: ~50USD/year (forgot to track this expense, oops)
• Backblaze B2: ~2€/month

If you only need a public IP to reach your stuff, an even cheaper VPS should suffice.

Edit: forgot some stuff in the first pass

Many thousand dollars sunk into hardware. The electricity bill, I guess. Other than that, Mullvad is probably the only running cost related to self-hosting.

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

Last year I spent around £60 per months on subscriptions only. Plus internet £35, so nearly £100. This year I've stopped Apple (iCloud bs+), prime, Spotify, audible and replaced those with FOSS, this year a one time payment per year to a Usenet service, £60, and a vps at £5 months, the experience has changed and after a bit of adaptation it all now feels so much better than the shackled experience I used to have. Love everything about it! So all in all I used to have a budget of around £1200/year and now it's down to half of that and the experience is far far far better. I recommend it.! Would be interested now to look at what can be done with IPTV.

Suggest paying for a mini PC and hosting off of that opposed to a VPS, having a dedicated machine to tinker with is much easier, just have to beat the upfront cost.

RPi also works but can get sluggish quite easily.

4€ a month for a VPS. Used to host a wireguard VPN and make my home server publicly accessible with restrictions

25€ a year for the domain name.

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Uhh i think i pay $70 every couple years for a vpn and thats kinda that.