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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    a .xyz domein .i just can be botherd to paying a lot for a domein . 2x dedicated servers for all the thing i self host.(28 euro with a 6 tb space total between the 2)(oneprovider decent space /speed but old hardware/isos /their raid options kinda suck)

    kinda wish they kept there images up to date .it sucks to update ubuntu with ofline repo mirrors .i keep using debian because of it

    i am also planning on maybe getting a cheap license trough patrion for photoprism

    (i dont have a creditcard being a person in the eu .leaving me with only paypal as a payment option)

    i would like to suport more opensource projects.

    but im constraind mostly by my hosting cost /buget

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    1 year ago

    I pay for a small VPS thats running my mail server and other extremely important services.

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    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.

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    I pay migadu to host my custom email domain. Well worth it. I tried self-hosting email, and it was too much of a pain for me.

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    I supported Bitwarden for at least 5 years, and like you… walked over the $10/year bridge. I setup my own Vaultwarden about 2 weeks ago with off-site backups… I’m fine with this responsibility, but I waved goodbye to them.

    I continue to support Proton (now Business) for custom domain e-mail & VPN. They don’t offer port forwarding, so I still support AirVPN for personal reasons. I tried out WireShark & was not impressed with latency/packet loss monitoring at their nearby endpoints.

    I support BackBlaze B2 for all off-site backups – excellent low-cost provider for my “Cloud” backups.

    I run Home Assistant locally, but I’d definitely support their Cloud project if I needed a greater home acceptance factor… very similar to supporting Proton & Bitwarden in their beginnings. I appreciate them not paywalling features.

    I ran away from Blue Iris Surveillance & adopted Frigate about 6 months ago – best decision I ever made. I love running Frigate with a GPU for AI.

    If you waved a magic wand around 8-10 years ago & told everyone they’d be drowning in smartphone photos & privacy issues with Google, 9/10 would not have believed you. That’s about when I left Google Drive permanently back then & have been running Nextcloud since. I am glad to see masses of people finally leaving Google Photos. I also run PhotoPrism as my long-term photo manager to visualize “life” for our family. Absolutely zero money flowing into the hands of Google now. They tossed their Google Domains Beta idea into the trash can of another entity I accidentally supported earlier in life – SquareSpace. When Google announced the sale of Google Domains to SquareSpace, I moved all domains to CloudFlare within a week. Thanks SquareSpace, but I can run my own Ghost & Jekyll blogs for free now thanks to this great OSS community.

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      finally leaving Google Photos

      What do you recommend for a photo hosting site? At the current time, I can’t really self host a photo album and I’m tired of emailing pictures to my family. I’d rather have something like google photos, where I can share a link to an album and they can see the pictures.

      I know there’s flickr, but i don’t know if you can make albums sharable via link, without the need to have a flickr account.

      For backup, I think I’ll use my backblaze account. I’ve had a backblaze account for years and mainly use it to backup my ebooks.

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    Bitwarden… for me its for 2 reasons. One I dont have to deal with keeping something that needs to be super secure up to date. and 2 it help continue the project and its 10 bucks. I spend more then that one dumber stuff.

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    • CopyMeThat shopping lists, meal plans, recipes. Lifetime price was $25 (which currently brings it to an annual price of $2.8 for me :D), and it has better features than selfhosted versions. Still would like to switch, especially after they had an annoying outage, but still holding out for improvements in the oss versions.
    • Nabu Casa Cloud (Home Assistant), mainly to support them, some minor benefits.
    • Open AI API, because getting a GPU that can run any decently sized LLM would cost decades of what I pay Open AI ;)
    • Backblaze Personal Backups for my PC and B2 for my server
    • Mullvad VPN forrrrrrr nothing special.
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    I have selfhosted email for 10-15 domains for about 20 years (qmail toaster, then mailinabox). I also pay for fastmail.com and purelymail.com so that I have email addresses that still work if my hosting goes down. I host on AWS, and if something goes wrong with my AWS account, I need a way to communicate with AWS that doesn’t require servers running in the affected account.

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    I’m paying a cheap VPS for stuff that I want to be 100% available. Like vaultwarden and Authentik for example.

    But services, hmm let me see. Does Netflix count as I have plex? Nvm I pay both monthly, did not buy the plex lifetime pass yet. But for Netflix I recently switched my payment to turkey via vpn. Price is less than 1/3rd now.

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    Fastmail. Left Gmail for it like a decade ago and have been happy with it ever since. It really is fast.