I am trying to capture costs for starting into homelab/selfhosting.
VPNs, search engines, absolutely everything and anything.
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- Domain: $12/year
- Small VPS: $60/year
- Offsite Backup: $80/year
- Electricity: ?? I haven’t broken it out.
All in, that’s $152/year. I’m probably going to add another $132/year if/when I can convince the rest of the family to move away from Gmail.
The VPS is for a few services that I don’t want to go down if my home internet connect goes down. And offsite backups are a must for me.
Domain is about $15/yr
Email for my domain is $20/yr
VPN is about $50/yr
Yeah thats… Pretty much it for me.
Unless we want to include donations? But that doesnt fit the word “subscription” IMO.
There are subscription costs for homelabbing?
Electricity. Off-site backup. FOSS project donations. Thigh-high socks. Domains.
I hear of VPS and VPN, then there is domains and loads I dont know about.
I have internet at home, an electricity bill. A few domains and a VPS.
Yearly:
- ~80€ for 6 domains (using all of them)
- 125€ electricity (480kWh, 0,26€/kWh)
- 540€ VPSes (joint projects where other admins have access, not entirely paid by myself though, still planning to migrate one of them into homelab)
Not counting ISP since we have that anyways.
What are you using those 6 domains for? Genuine question btw
Domain about 10 per year (I pay for multiple years at a time), internet 55 per month with a static IP address
Beyond that I have a vpn that I use but was an early adopter so I have a lifetime subscription which cost me like a hundred bucks so call that 10 per year and getting less as time goes by, I have three other domain names not related to my homelab and webhosting also not related to my homelab. But by the time next year I should no longer be paying for any hosting. I bought a lifetime plexpass when it was like 125. Beyond that the costs are hardware and electricity and I just put an Enphase System Controller 3 and an IQ Combiner 5 on the house with 7.2kw of panels going on over the next few months and a couple IQ Battery 5P’s so my power use for my homelab is basically covered.
- Domain for about 15/year
- Proton unlimited (mostly mail, SimpleLogin, vpn) about 90/year
- Nabu casa (not that I need it, but to support development) 75/year
I spend a lot more money on donations to the open source stuff I’m running, but they are not strictly speaking “subscriptions”. Self hosting for me isn’t about cost, it’s about data ownership.
Domain and vps about 20 per year.
Spotify not because I am missing a navidrome server. But because I sometimes need the huge catalogue of it to browse.
Edit: 70 for protonvpn. Need those Linux isos.
Aside from domain costs, I don’t pay for any extra services in regards to my homelab. I pay for email as well because I don’t want to manage that.
It really depends on which services you need besides whatever hardware you have lying around.
For me it’s a bit higher, as I used to host all my stuff on a rented dedicated box. Having an always on server in my bedroom didn’t work for me, I have moved out since and built a local sever.
- Dedicated Hetzner server + 10TB storage box: ~75€/month
- Netcup VPS (external monitoring): ~6.50€/month
- Kavita+ subscription for additional features: 5 USD/month (I think)
- Various domains: not sure, I have ~7 domains so another ~100€/year
- Mail: 90USD/year
- VPN: ~50USD/year (forgot to track this expense, oops)
- Backblaze B2: ~2€/month
If you only need a public IP to reach your stuff, an even cheaper VPS should suffice.
Edit: forgot some stuff in the first pass
- Domain I bought like 4 years ago for 20€, I think it’s 13€/yr
- A shitty VPN with port forwarding because I trust my ISP way less than I do the VPN, 36€/yr
- iCloud+ Mail - it’s 1€/mo and gets past all spam filters, has catch-all and doesn’t get in my way much
- ~0.05€/mo for network egress on a “free” GCP VM instance
- 0€/mo for my main server (Oracle can get fucked though, reprehensible evil company!)
That’s it for the recurring costs related in any way to my homelab.
VPNs, search engines, absolutely everything and anything.
WiresharkWireguard (VPN): free- SearxNG (Search Engine): free
- Equipment: widely varies
The whole idea of selfhosting is to cut out corporate subscriptions and to retain your privacy, security, anonymity, and data.
I am very concerned about selfhosting and exposing my network to the internet. I thought people had VPS etc.
Do you mean a VPN? Tailscale has a free tier, or you can run a headscale instance on whatever hardware you like.
Selfhosting on a VPS can have its use cases (piracy). If you are worried about exposing it to the internet just don’t and ise company profiles on your devices to automatically connect your network using VPN
A VPS is a Virtual Private Server, such as one would rent from a provider like digitalocean.com com or similar. Most of the crew here run their homelab off of equipment located in their residence. If a VPS is the path you’d like to take, then that would be a subscription. If you have equipment in your physical possession, that is yet another path. Either way, security is of utmost importance.
Tailscale being an alternative to a VPS then?
Wireshark has to be a typo right? I never knew the packet capture program did that.
Ahhh fuck Wireguard. This old brain is not functioning today.
$6.50 for nabu casa (home assistant cloud)
Domain was £50 for 10 years.
Usenet is £25 every 12 months.
Scaleway for a backup is about £1 a month.Then I pay £10 a month for ente.io. I have all my familys on my account and I don’t want to be in charge of self hosting it.
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