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> Everything combined costs me $55 per month. For many (most?) people this is too much; enough for them to give away some control to a third party - and get a
by thih9 2y ago
> Everything combined costs me $55 per month.
For many (most?) people this is too much; enough for them to give away some control to a third party - and get a similar product for free.
- poisonborz 2y agoI really don't get people selfhosting on a VPS. Defeats the purpose of independence/privacy, limited resources, a few months of bills would cover hardware and electricity.
- zeagle 2y agoI have moved a lot of stuff from vps to my home server but I use mine as a glorified reverse proxy for home services with appropriate firewall rules, hosting my website, Adguard dns over https, and Borg backup source. $130cdn/yr.
- dimtion 2y agoHosting some services on a vps provides far better availability of data, than doing it at home. Especially when you need it the most. For example when you are moving to a new home, and need to save documents, or you are abroad, need a document and there is a power outage at home. Even if you have to trust a 3rd party with your data, (1) you can minimize the privacy risk with encryption and (2) usually VPS/cloud providers have different privacy guaranties than free Google drive...
- markozivanovic 2y agoHey! Author here! It's been 3 years since I wrote this article. I realized pretty soon I don't need as much resources. I think I'm at 17 bucks per month currently, and I have several more projects running.
- 28304283409234 2y agoI'm hosting all of this and more on one old x260 thinkpad with 1TB SSD and 16GB of memory gathering dust in my basement. And an external disk for backup. Total cost? 500 euros or so?