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[non self hosted] : Cheap Services You Still Pay For (alien.top)
submitted 10 months 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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[-] architecture13@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Honestly, standard web hosting is far and away cheaper to outsource.

I pay Ionos $14 a month for unlimited space and unlimited bandwidth to host an unlimited amount of sites. It easier to let them handle the hosting and just redirect the sub-domains I need to my home server.

Most Redditor's here in r/selfhosted have likely never felt the slashdot effect, and the havoc it creates. I've had two big posts hit Reddit frontpage over the years linking to my website, and Ionos handled 100k daily unique visitors without a hiccup. No Pi4 on AT&T home fiber could handle that.

Edit: Whoops, missed the under $30 qualifier, Still leaving this here though.

[-] ProbablePenguin@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

How do you find Ionos for keeping up to date? My experience with shared web hosts is they'll be on PHP 7.x or something while PHP 8.2 is the current stable version.

[-] nixblu@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Nice try, Ionos team

[-] BloodyIron@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

I've been self-hosting my own websites for over a decade, and while the hug-death of the "slashdot effect" can be real, it is a statistical anomoly and a absurd as a rationale against self-hosting. It is actually cheaper ($ wise) to self-host with equipment you already have. Certs are $0 with LE, everything else is just setting up systems (websites) on equipment you already run and pay for. It is a lie to say that that's somehow more expensive than $14/mo.

If someone chooses to pay for hosting elsewhere, that's one thing, but don't sell the lie that it's cheaper. It's not.

As for the 100k/day unique traffic, that depends on the website served. If it's a fully static site and your setup is tuned, yeah you can actually handle that.

[-] binpax@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Which plan are you using with ionos for unlimited amount of sites? If you have a link that would be great

[-] YokoHama22@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

You mean cloud hosting vs hosting the site on a private server? - I always assumed most small-scale sites are just cloud hosted. And what do you mean by "redirect the sub-domains I need to my home server"? What would you do that for? Routing a subset to your home server?

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