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A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don't control.

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Moving from AWS to Bare-Metal saved us 230,000$ /yr. (blog.oneuptime.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No mention of software costs, ongoing software and hardware maintenance. There is no cookie cutter answer, it really depends on the specific systems.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

They say their monthly op-ex is $5500.

Our monthly operational expenditure (op-ex), which includes power, cooling, energy, and remote hands (although we seldom use this service), is now approximately $5,500.