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[non self hosted] : Cheap Services You Still Pay For (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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My Bitwarden renewal came through this morning. It's still $10 per year. I was about to cancel, but I thought what the heck at $10, I'll keep it on out of principle and to show support.

I also have a tutanota encrypted email, which costs little more than pocket change over the year. I hardly use it, but it's there.

I wondered then, if this community had any little gems to share - services they pay for that are let's say under $30 annually. I think we can exclude VPS, since lots of people will probably have them already.

I'm going to cross post at /r/opensource too.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (5 children)

VPS for wire guard tunnel, because fucking ISP CGNAT $5/month

Usenet provider and private indexer roughly $10/month

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

$10/m for 1 provider and 1 indexer?

If you hunt around this black friday you should be able to get a better deal than that. For reference I have 1 unlimited provider (newshosting) for about $30/yr and 2 indexers each around $15/yr

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah I can’t read, my indexer is $12 per year provider is $6 per month

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah. Same. VPS for $4/mo for the purpose of VPN. In addition to WireGuard, I host X-UI dashboard which runs ShadowSocks-2022 and VLESS/VMESS/XTLS-Reality, all on top of XRay core.

All relatives and friends are using this VPN, no complain.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Usenet provider and private indexer roughly $10/month

I should try those... I can never force myself to use them, but I bet they are amazing to have.

I'm tired of torrents...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I made the switch in the summer of 2022 after nearly two decades of exclusively using torrents. I'll never go back to torrents for anything media related again.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Does your provider not offer IPv6? That's usually the best way to avoid all NAT, including CGNAT.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

$5/m is pretty expensive for a VPS if you're just using it for Wireguard. A $15/year 2 GB RAM / 20-ish GB SSD VPS would be totally fine for that use case.

Black Friday is coming up... The best time of year for VPS deals. Even without Black Friday deals, providers like GreenCloudVPS (their "Budget KVM" packages) and RackNerd have good deals.