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I don't get this. So bitwarden knows all your passwords? Doesn't that kind of make you feel uneasy?

Its not actually cheap but im all for my proton enterprise plan.

1Password NextDNS iCloud ProtonMail

• tasks.org - $1/year
• ardour - $1/month
• tasker (autoapps on android) - $1/month

Don’t even use them anymore. But as I wouldn’t miss it, I’ll keep it going to support the devs.

I pay for a bunch of stuff but it’s all self hosted. Bitwarden, opnsense, nginx proxy, uptime kuma, wikijs…

VPN, Cloud storage, cloud hosting.

nextdns really like the custom dns overrides and the great tailscale integration

Cloudflare (custom domain)

NextDNS

Zoho mail (you@customdomain.com)

Bitwarden & PurelyMail for me.

I have just loaded $10 initially for PurelyMail & it works great for simple outbound emails from my homelab services.

It's not cheap, but I pay for Spotify because overall I've been pretty happy with it. It has a good selection of features, lots of content, and it works pretty well for the most part. The only real complaint that I have is that the offline mode isn't great.

An actually cheap service that I pay for is addy.io, and even though I haven't been using it much, so far it has been working pretty well.

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

Usenet provider and private indexer roughly $10/month

Im into fitness so: Lose it! and Hevy (dont know if there are good selfhosted alternatives)

Mullvad Bitwarden Goodnotes cuz im studying right now and make notes on my iPad

Windscribe vpn. Got a special account for $10/year. Can't really selfhost vpn on 100+ location with $10.

Bitwarden is one of the few invoices I enjoy seeing. It means I get fantastic service for another year. The cost value for me is insane as I use it so many times a day.

PIA 3 years for like 80$

Seedbox for, I dont even know

and icloud for a dollar a month

Bitwarden for passwords
MXRoute for mail
Kagi for search
Backblaze B2 for offsite backups

I self host pi-hole, but I send them some money once in a while.

A few:

1. YT Music
2. 1Password (technically I get it free from work, but I would pay if they switch or I change jobs)
3. Proton VPN , i am grandfathered into an older plan

Honestly, standard web hosting is far and away cheaper to outsource.

I pay Ionos $14 a month for unlimited space and unlimited bandwidth to host an unlimited amount of sites. It easier to let them handle the hosting and just redirect the sub-domains I need to my home server.

Most Redditor's here in r/selfhosted have likely never felt the slashdot effect, and the havoc it creates. I've had two big posts hit Reddit frontpage over the years linking to my website, and Ionos handled 100k daily unique visitors without a hiccup. No Pi4 on AT&T home fiber could handle that.

Edit: Whoops, missed the under $30 qualifier, Still leaving this here though.

5$ VPS for email server

I pay for a good number of them. Not that I can't self-host alternatives. It is just easier:

• 1Password
• OneDrive
• B2 Storage (backing up OneDrive amongst other things)
• VPS

Bitwarden is weird because it’s a service I could easily self host but I really don’t mind paying for because it’s pretty critical that it experiences maximum uptime and tinkering and I trust their data center. I also like supporting the company and I appreciate that the product just works.

Albeit more than 30 annually but I still consider cheap/good value:

Exchange online few domains streaming services (TV and music because WAF)

Proton services
https://proton.me/

Domain and use it for email

migadu for email

Bitwarden is 100% worth the $10 a year. And is independant of my selfhosting dickery.

Plex and a VPN are a lot cheaper than streaming services these days.

Backblaze b2 backup. I'm backing up almost 500gb of personal data (compressed and only things I can't get back easy) for less than $2\month.

I don’t know how many times I have to say this: selfhosting is about more than saving money.

In other words, sometimes paying for a service you could selfhost is the right call. In most cases, if you can manage a self-hosting setup, your time is worth more than the cost of cloud services. TBH, I do it for data governance reasons more than cost.

It’s not either/or and it’s not about going “off-grid” for a lot of people.

Internet Archive (Wayback Machine, anyone?)

I mean I get that's a strange mention here, but with the value I've got from it (like being able to reference content of some website *in point of time* knowing it may change or even completely die) I somehow feel obligated to send at least a few tens of dollars per year. Also they have matching donations campaign around Christmas (at least that's how it was in recent years), so it's a nice idea donate right then.

Fastmail, LastPass and NordVPN

mullvad is worth it for not having any data caps

I pay migadu to host my custom email domain. Well worth it. I tried self-hosting email, and it was too much of a pain for me.

Bitwarden and Email.

I trust a company like Bitwarden to handle uptime of my password manager more than I do myself. If most of my selfhosted services went down, I'm gonna be a little annoyed, but I can survive. If Bitwarden goes down, that's a real PITA.

And email, because f**k trying to self host email successfully, I've accepted I'll just have to use a commercial provider for emails. I'll try and set up a self hosted server at some point, but on a separate domain and most likely just to mess around/learn.