Self-Hosted Main

Even though I have a lifetime LastPass subscripion I still choose to pay the $10 bucks and stay with Bitwarden not just becuse I wanted the yubikey support, its also just so simple to use and I love its simplicity. Its also polite and does not bring any extra bloatware. Its really quite good value. It just does its job really nicely

I pay like $5 a month for web hosting. Not worth it to self-host a public e-commerce site on my own network.

VPS for wire guard tunnel, because fucking ISP CGNAT $5/month

Usenet provider and private indexer roughly $10/month

Fastmail and nextdns. I'm still paying for iCloud, but I intend to move everything to my local server.

I go on and off streaming services: Disney, Hulu, Netflix, HBO.

Amazon Prime, which includes a bunch of goodies.

Kindle Unlimited. I usually wait for promotions since there isn't a ton of material I like that I haven't read yet. Also I'm rather busy lately.

Proton Suite

Windscribe vpn. Got a special account for $10/year. Can't really selfhost vpn on 100+ location with $10.

Hertzner storage box for backups 1tb cheap as chips Daily backups from proxmox

It's not cheap, but I pay for Spotify because overall I've been pretty happy with it. It has a good selection of features, lots of content, and it works pretty well for the most part. The only real complaint that I have is that the offline mode isn't great.

An actually cheap service that I pay for is addy.io, and even though I haven't been using it much, so far it has been working pretty well.

1Password NextDNS iCloud ProtonMail

Google Photos.

I pay $15 a month for unlimited storage.

Photos of my family are of the most important things to me so I'm paying out for guaranteed redundancy.

I still host a local photo storage version but I also backup everything to Google Photos.

Cloudflare + VPS

VPN, iCloud in case I lose my drives, MEGA, Spotify

PIA 3 years for like 80$

Seedbox for, I dont even know

and icloud for a dollar a month

Bitwarden is one of the few invoices I enjoy seeing. It means I get fantastic service for another year. The cost value for me is insane as I use it so many times a day.

$2 iCloud

$2 Google One

$10 UsenetServer

$59.95 /3 years, PIA VPN

Simplelogin... for random emails using my various domains.

Bitwarden for passwords
MXRoute for mail
Kagi for search
Backblaze B2 for offsite backups

I self host pi-hole, but I send them some money once in a while.

AirVPN but if you don't need port forwarding Mullvad is king.

Honestly, standard web hosting is far and away cheaper to outsource.

I pay Ionos $14 a month for unlimited space and unlimited bandwidth to host an unlimited amount of sites. It easier to let them handle the hosting and just redirect the sub-domains I need to my home server.

Most Redditor's here in r/selfhosted have likely never felt the slashdot effect, and the havoc it creates. I've had two big posts hit Reddit frontpage over the years linking to my website, and Ionos handled 100k daily unique visitors without a hiccup. No Pi4 on AT&T home fiber could handle that.

Edit: Whoops, missed the under $30 qualifier, Still leaving this here though.

I self host vaultwarden but I also pay teh $10/year to support the project, I self host for Collections and I use the paid bitwarden at work since they do not allow ddns addresses in our network.

Im into fitness so: Lose it! and Hevy (dont know if there are good selfhosted alternatives)

Mullvad Bitwarden Goodnotes cuz im studying right now and make notes on my iPad

Bitwarden & PurelyMail for me.

I have just loaded $10 initially for PurelyMail & it works great for simple outbound emails from my homelab services.

I don't exactly have a VPS per se, but rather a CG-NAT bypass server to connect my home server to the open Internet. I sometimes used it as an external backup storage as well, but the server is cheap so the storage space available is minimal.

A few:

1. YT Music
2. 1Password (technically I get it free from work, but I would pay if they switch or I change jobs)
3. Proton VPN , i am grandfathered into an older plan

VPN, Cloud storage, cloud hosting.

nextdns really like the custom dns overrides and the great tailscale integration

Cloudflare (custom domain)

NextDNS

Zoho mail ([email protected])

(Obvious disclosure, I am the one running the service)

If support for open source is what you are looking for, may I suggest taking a look at Communick? It basically takes the open source alternatives for social media and messaging platforms, and packages them for easy access and setup. There are packages for Mastodon, Lemmy or Matrix each of them for less than $10/year and fully managed. I'm pledging to take 20% of the profits and contribute to the upstream projects.

5$ VPS for email server

Bitwarden is weird because it’s a service I could easily self host but I really don’t mind paying for because it’s pretty critical that it experiences maximum uptime and tinkering and I trust their data center. I also like supporting the company and I appreciate that the product just works.

I pay for a good number of them. Not that I can't self-host alternatives. It is just easier:

• 1Password
• OneDrive
• B2 Storage (backing up OneDrive amongst other things)
• VPS

Calendly. I wantwantwant to self-host Cal.com, but the only way I've ever made it work is via Cloudron. And if I'm gonna pay for Cloudron? I might as well just pay for Calendly.

MXRoute, super cheap and awesome.

Albeit more than 30 annually but I still consider cheap/good value:

Exchange online few domains streaming services (TV and music because WAF)

spotify. It just works and has most music I want to.

nordVPN - not sure if it is good, but I wanted to have a vpn service.

ditched netflix recently due to woke culture.

oh, and cheap domain. But that cannot be self-hosted.