Domain is about $15/yr

Email for my domain is $20/yr

VPN is about $50/yr

There are subscription costs for homelabbing?

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

• 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.

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.

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 and vps about 20 per year.

Spotify not because I am missing a navidrome server. But because I sometimes need the huge catalogue of it to browse.

Edit: 70 for protonvpn. Need those Linux isos.

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.

donations to lemmy devs and 2 fediverse servers are $10/month each, so $30/month total.

$0

$6.50 for nabu casa (home assistant cloud)

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

• 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.

Wonky Coffee, about £30 per month.

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

Password manager for 10€/y and webspace which is free cuz I host some websites for money