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.

Simplelogin... for random emails using my various domains.

Bitwarden is 100% worth the $10 a year. And is independant of my selfhosting dickery.

Plex and a VPN are a lot cheaper than streaming services these days.

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.

VPN, iCloud in case I lose my drives, MEGA, Spotify

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.

$2 iCloud

$2 Google One

$10 UsenetServer

$59.95 /3 years, PIA VPN

MXRoute, super cheap and awesome.

I pay my ISP for internet, and a domain registrar for my domain name, and backblaze for cloud backup.

That's really it.

1Password (I actually get to via work), nextdns and Home Assistant.

Domain and use it for email

rsync.net - Haven‘t tested it yet, but the pricing and their offering looks really awesome.

Bitwarden I am also paying for, but I use the license for my self-hosted Instance.

migadu for email

Bitwarden’s $10 priceing a year is absolutely the most fair pricing that exists. They will keep me as a loyal customers.

Jellyfin

I pay for a bunch of stuff but it’s all self hosted. Bitwarden, opnsense, nginx proxy, uptime kuma, wikijs…

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.

I pay for bitwarden because it's so cheap, and yet I love what they offer. It's able to be selfhosted, which is why I'm willing to trust it. The service I pay for is protonvpn. I need a vpn just for a few generic things like bypassing locked down networks that prevent me from using ssh, and I trust protonvpn enough to use it for smth like that.

Sneakemail. Just paid the $36 for my 10th year. Great having a fully unique, obfuscated, and permanent email for everyone you communicate with that you can also send from.

As with all email, I'm vested so switching is a burden. But this may be the year.

The domain is being rejected more often lately, so I can't use it to create accounts like I used to. Competitors like SimpleLogin/ProtonPass alias offer more for less ($30/year or bundled), but what if they end up suffering the same fate?

I pay like $5 a month for web hosting. Not worth it to self-host a public e-commerce site on my own network.

Bitwarden is weird because it’s a service I could easily self host but I really don’t mind paying for because it’s pretty critical that it experiences maximum uptime and tinkering and I trust their data center. I also like supporting the company and I appreciate that the product just works.

Calendly. I wantwantwant to self-host Cal.com, but the only way I've ever made it work is via Cloudron. And if I'm gonna pay for Cloudron? I might as well just pay for Calendly.

I pay for a good number of them. Not that I can't self-host alternatives. It is just easier:

• 1Password
• OneDrive
• B2 Storage (backing up OneDrive amongst other things)
• VPS

5$ VPS for email server

Google Photos. We pay for 2TB and have all the family member slots loaded up. It's perfect because my parents and my in-laws all use Android phones.

Bitwarden, Paid addy.io, protonmail paid via crypto, privacy.com virtual credit cards, MySudo voip numbers, a jmp.chat number or two.

Fastmail, LastPass and NordVPN

3$ a month for real debrid: to download Linux iso 2$ a month for YouTube premium family plan: from a different country for cheap rates 10$ for 2 years nordvpn: black Friday deal Around 5$ a month Hulu after an Amex offer 140$ for 500gb pcloud for backups, lifetime. Then I have automated backups of that in a different country where I have an rpi connected to an external hdd.

Spotify. Todoist and bitwarden.

Noip $25/year

I pay for my own domain name hands down the best investment, as little as 1€ per month and you get a lot more option for your homeland/vps/mail or whatever you have.