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

submitted 2 years ago by softwarebuyer2015@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum

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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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[–] UnnervingS@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Obsidian

[–] tejanaqkilica@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Real-Debrid. €3/Month.

Too good to pass.

[–] MrSliff84@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

I'm paying a cheap VPS for stuff that I want to be 100% available. Like vaultwarden and Authentik for example.

But services, hmm let me see. Does Netflix count as I have plex? Nvm I pay both monthly, did not buy the plex lifetime pass yet. But for Netflix I recently switched my payment to turkey via vpn. Price is less than 1/3rd now.

[–] ilco1@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

a .xyz domein .i just can be botherd to paying a lot for a domein . 2x dedicated servers for all the thing i self host.(28 euro with a 6 tb space total between the 2)(oneprovider decent space /speed but old hardware/isos /their raid options kinda suck)

kinda wish they kept there images up to date .it sucks to update ubuntu with ofline repo mirrors .i keep using debian because of it

i am also planning on maybe getting a cheap license trough patrion for photoprism

(i dont have a creditcard being a person in the eu .leaving me with only paypal as a payment option)

i would like to suport more opensource projects.

but im constraind mostly by my hosting cost /buget

[–] touche112@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Google Photos. We pay for 2TB and have all the family member slots loaded up. It's perfect because my parents and my in-laws all use Android phones.

[–] solonovamax@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

I pay for bitwarden because it's so cheap, and yet I love what they offer. It's able to be selfhosted, which is why I'm willing to trust it. The service I pay for is protonvpn. I need a vpn just for a few generic things like bypassing locked down networks that prevent me from using ssh, and I trust protonvpn enough to use it for smth like that.

[–] art_of_onanism@alien.top 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Asian VPS to bypass GFW in China so I can go on Google and such

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