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[non self hosted] : Cheap Services You Still Pay For (alien.top)
submitted 1 year ago by softwarebuyer2015@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum
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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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[-] excetto@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

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

[-] neon5k@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Any other cheaper options? Not looking for a tb. Even 100gb is good with me.

[-] Johannesboy1@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Backblaze is great and transparent

[-] RunOrBike@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I recently got myself a storage box, too. If I’m not mistaken, there’s no smaller option than 1 GB.

[-] ellipsoidalellipsoid@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Scaleway offer up to 75GB of their Object Storage for free and only start charging when you go over.

[-] neon5k@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

That's traffic not storage.

[-] sgtgig@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Blackblaze B2 costs me pennies using 50GB of storage. $0.18 last month

[-] thefpspower@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Damn ok that's cheap, even for a small business this looks like a great option for off-site backups.

[-] sowhatidoit@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Do you encrypt the backups? I'm interested in learning more about this process.

[-] UndeadCircus@alien.top 2 points 1 year ago

If you are sending any of your data from your home lab to an outside server that you personally do not control then yes, you should ALWAYS encrypt the backups (unless it's crap you don't care about like your tax returns, credit card details, passwords, etc.)

[-] MalcolmY@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

How do you I encrypt the files before copying them to a remote server/storage?

[-] jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Some backup services have an option for it, like Duplicati. Rclone also has it but requires a lil setup I think.

[-] UndeadCircus@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Good backup software will have this ability built in - such as duplicati for instance.

[-] Johannesboy1@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Restic is great for that, deduplication and snapshots as well

[-] Daniel15@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Use a good backup system like Borgbackup (with Borgmatic to automate it).

[-] Whyd0Iboth3r@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Is there a service like this in the USA?

[-] r00m-lv@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Have you tried restoring from it? I’ve read about pretty gnarly situations where they have corrupted the data and even lost it (raid failed)

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