For my homelab:

Mullvad: ~$6/month Domain: $8/year

And whatever cost for electricity for running a singular mini PC, Pi4, and my synology.

Cost isn’t much.

You said anything so I guess. VPN is like… $4 a month (that’s what the math works out to for my three year sub).

Cloud service is like $10 a month

Music: $15 a month

Nebula: $5 a month

Password Manager: $1.33 a month

Internet: $90 a month

Phone: $30

Wikipedia: $5 a month

Servo: $5 a month

404 Media: $8.33 a month

That’s all I can think of off the top of my head unless you want like rent and utilities and that.

For startup costs, ~80€ for a used micro PC a few years back (+100€ for a 1TB SSD for it).

Since then

• 6€/yr domain
• 48€/yr email (proton plus using domain above)
• I’m thinking of setting up Backblaze B2 for offsite backup, should be ~20€/yr for about 250GB stored continuously if I calculated right

I never bothered with electricity costs, since it’s a small micro PC. It probably uses sub 20W average, which, next to an AC, fridge, and WFH costs, has to be negligible, the cost of buying a measuring device in itself is probably not worth it

Mullvad vpn. That’s it.

• 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

There are subscription costs for homelabbing?

• 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.

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.

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.

I have internet at home, an electricity bill. A few domains and a VPS.

• 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.

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.