Self-Hosted Main

Hertzner storage box for backups 1tb cheap as chips Daily backups from proxmox

Fastmail and nextdns. I'm still paying for iCloud, but I intend to move everything to my local server.

I go on and off streaming services: Disney, Hulu, Netflix, HBO.

Amazon Prime, which includes a bunch of goodies.

Kindle Unlimited. I usually wait for promotions since there isn't a ton of material I like that I haven't read yet. Also I'm rather busy lately.

Proton Suite

VPN, iCloud in case I lose my drives, MEGA, Spotify

Bitwarden, Paid addy.io, protonmail paid via crypto, privacy.com virtual credit cards, MySudo voip numbers, a jmp.chat number or two.

Google Photos.

I pay $15 a month for unlimited storage.

Photos of my family are of the most important things to me so I'm paying out for guaranteed redundancy.

I still host a local photo storage version but I also backup everything to Google Photos.

Real-debrid and bitwarden, both are amazing and dirt cheap

Email (Tutanota), Cloud backups (B2), VPN (Mullvad)

Deezer - better sound quality than Spotify - good family plan Bitwarden - of course MS365 - family plan for $100 a year. 1Tb cloud storage, and all the MS apps for 5 up to ppl

Calendly. I wantwantwant to self-host Cal.com, but the only way I've ever made it work is via Cloudron. And if I'm gonna pay for Cloudron? I might as well just pay for Calendly.

Sneakemail. Just paid the $36 for my 10th year. Great having a fully unique, obfuscated, and permanent email for everyone you communicate with that you can also send from.

As with all email, I'm vested so switching is a burden. But this may be the year.

The domain is being rejected more often lately, so I can't use it to create accounts like I used to. Competitors like SimpleLogin/ProtonPass alias offer more for less ($30/year or bundled), but what if they end up suffering the same fate?

Proton Mail ($5ish a month for me?), Jira/Conflience (free), and password manager.

I have a $5/year MXRoute account that I still use even though I self-host my emails. I use MXRoute as an outbound SMTP relay since they've got all the IP reputation stuff figured out.

I know you said to exclude VPS, but I've got some of VPSes around the $15-$50 per year range, since it's nice having my sites hosted on higher-end enterprise-grade hardware than what I'm using at home.

I'm considering paying for Kagi (a paid search engine) because it's ad-free and the results are legitimately better than Google.

I pay my ISP for internet, and a domain registrar for my domain name, and backblaze for cloud backup.

That's really it.

Bitwarden’s $10 priceing a year is absolutely the most fair pricing that exists. They will keep me as a loyal customers.

MXRoute, super cheap and awesome.

I self host vaultwarden but I also pay teh $10/year to support the project, I self host for Collections and I use the paid bitwarden at work since they do not allow ddns addresses in our network.

AirVPN but if you don't need port forwarding Mullvad is king.

I pay like $5 a month for web hosting. Not worth it to self-host a public e-commerce site on my own network.

Cloudflare + VPS

1Password (I actually get to via work), nextdns and Home Assistant.

rsync.net - Haven‘t tested it yet, but the pricing and their offering looks really awesome.

Bitwarden I am also paying for, but I use the license for my self-hosted Instance.

3$ a month for real debrid: to download Linux iso 2$ a month for YouTube premium family plan: from a different country for cheap rates 10$ for 2 years nordvpn: black Friday deal Around 5$ a month Hulu after an Amex offer 140$ for 500gb pcloud for backups, lifetime. Then I have automated backups of that in a different country where I have an rpi connected to an external hdd.

I don't exactly have a VPS per se, but rather a CG-NAT bypass server to connect my home server to the open Internet. I sometimes used it as an external backup storage as well, but the server is cheap so the storage space available is minimal.

(Obvious disclosure, I am the one running the service)

If support for open source is what you are looking for, may I suggest taking a look at Communick? It basically takes the open source alternatives for social media and messaging platforms, and packages them for easy access and setup. There are packages for Mastodon, Lemmy or Matrix each of them for less than $10/year and fully managed. I'm pledging to take 20% of the profits and contribute to the upstream projects.

Proton mail

$2 iCloud

$2 Google One

$10 UsenetServer

$59.95 /3 years, PIA VPN

Simplelogin... for random emails using my various domains.

HA cloud. Apple iCloud storage.

Pushover. One time payment that covers lifetime push messages.

I only pay for iCloud+ for mail