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Indeed! I used to run various services on my older generation hardware, but I realised that I was spending more than $70 a month on electricity to do so! It's

Indeed! I used to run various services on my older generation hardware, but I realised that I was spending more than $70 a month on electricity to do so! It's much cheaper using a couple $5 VPSes for services. The only hardware left at home that is on 24/7 is my NAS, which is because 20TB of storage costs too much in the cloud.

Uberphallus 8y ago
Have you considered Google Suite? https://gsuite.google.com/ https://gsuite.google.com/ You'll need a domain name to associate (and handle email, etc), and while technically you need 5 users to have unlimited storage, at the moment it doesn't seem to be enforced and a single user does have it. Currently I'm storing ~50TB for $10/month. At this price and having 100Mbps Internet connection, I only turn on the NAS for local backups.
- tallanvor 8y ago
  That's great, but what happens when Google kills the offering or suspends your account for violating their TOS?
- pnutjam 8y ago
  Don't be surprised when Google suddenly starts enforcing space limits and dumps your data.
cerberusss 8y ago
If you can deal with IPv6, Vultr instances go for as low as US$2.50 -- or $3.50 with IPv4. It's insane.