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

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

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.