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.
Cloudflare + VPS
I have a $5/year MXRoute account that I still use even though I self-host my emails. I use MXRoute as an outbound SMTP relay since they’ve got all the IP reputation stuff figured out.
I know you said to exclude VPS, but I’ve got some of VPSes around the $15-$50 per year range, since it’s nice having my sites hosted on higher-end enterprise-grade hardware than what I’m using at home.
I’m considering paying for Kagi (a paid search engine) because it’s ad-free and the results are legitimately better than Google.
VPS for wire guard tunnel, because fucking ISP CGNAT $5/month
Usenet provider and private indexer roughly $10/month
$5/m is pretty expensive for a VPS if you’re just using it for Wireguard. A $15/year 2 GB RAM / 20-ish GB SSD VPS would be totally fine for that use case.
Black Friday is coming up… The best time of year for VPS deals. Even without Black Friday deals, providers like GreenCloudVPS (their “Budget KVM” packages) and RackNerd have good deals.
Does your provider not offer IPv6? That’s usually the best way to avoid all NAT, including CGNAT.
Usenet provider and private indexer roughly $10/month
I should try those… I can never force myself to use them, but I bet they are amazing to have.
I’m tired of torrents…
I made the switch in the summer of 2022 after nearly two decades of exclusively using torrents. I’ll never go back to torrents for anything media related again.
$10/m for 1 provider and 1 indexer?
If you hunt around this black friday you should be able to get a better deal than that. For reference I have 1 unlimited provider (newshosting) for about $30/yr and 2 indexers each around $15/yr
Yeah I can’t read, my indexer is $12 per year provider is $6 per month
Proton Suite
My expressVPN 2year plan is about to expire in February. I am seriously considering switching to Proton, especially since I already use protonMail as the inbox for my Anonaddy instance. What’s your experience with Proton?
I also have the proton suite, I love all of them. The only one I haven’t used is calendar, but everything else is great. The only complaint I have about their VPN is that port forwarding is mildly annoying and not automatic - but most people wouldn’t care, and it’s really very minor.
1Password NextDNS iCloud ProtonMail
Lmao Icloud is one of the services i started self hosting to replace
what is NextDNS and putio for?
What is put.io good for? I seem to not really understand what it is or what you would use it for?
What do you use iCloud for? iCloud Photos? I’ve been debating using my Synology for photos or iCloud.
Also why 1P over Bitwarden? Both are electron now?
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.
Its not actually cheap but im all for my proton enterprise plan.
If you don’t mind me asking: what type of business is it that would require encrypted emails?
I’m quite happy with migadu, and it falls in the < $30/year category even with multiple emails and mailboxes.
Its not just about the emails, they are basically just a side product of the VPN and Storage (and now the password app)
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.
Have you considered backblaze for your photo backup?
What plan are you on that offers unlimited storage?
I pay $15 a month for unlimited storage.
their plans go up to 2TB. Is this hidden?
I do as well. Google Photos + Backup to Synology via Photos.
Bitwarden & PurelyMail for me.
I have just loaded $10 initially for PurelyMail & it works great for simple outbound emails from my homelab services.
Bitwarden & PurelyMail for me.
I’m using PurelyMail with my own domain but frustratingly emails from my homelab are being blocked by apple.
I guess it’s the reputation of my Domain? I’ve setup SPF, DKIM and DMARC but no dice.
I’ve (recently) started using Cloudflare for my nameservers so thinking about setting up their DMARK and possibly even move my Domain over to them from IONOS. If it makes any difference, who knows.
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
Windscribe vpn. Got a special account for $10/year. Can’t really selfhost vpn on 100+ location with $10.
Oh I love windscribe. I was there when they just launched up and got their lifetime deal. been running since 2016 on that deal . pretty happy with their service
I love windscribe. They’re up there with dbrand for snarky promotional emails.
I had that too for a while. Currently just paying $2 for unlimited access with a singly country. Just for anonymity. Not worried about geolocation at the moment.
PIA 3 years for like 80$
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.
Do you use any of the premium features because the free plan looks essentially the same?
$2 iCloud
$2 Google One
$10 UsenetServer
$59.95 /3 years, PIA VPN
VPN, iCloud in case I lose my drives, MEGA, Spotify