Self-Hosted Main

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

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

That's really it.

Domain and use it for email

migadu for email

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

Proton services
https://proton.me/

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.

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.

Pushover. One time payment that covers lifetime push messages.

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.

Jellyfin

Proton mail

HA cloud. Apple iCloud storage.

Backblaze b2 backup. I'm backing up almost 500gb of personal data (compressed and only things I can't get back easy) for less than $2\month.

Internet Archive (Wayback Machine, anyone?)

I mean I get that's a strange mention here, but with the value I've got from it (like being able to reference content of some website *in point of time* knowing it may change or even completely die) I somehow feel obligated to send at least a few tens of dollars per year. Also they have matching donations campaign around Christmas (at least that's how it was in recent years), so it's a nice idea donate right then.

I don’t know how many times I have to say this: selfhosting is about more than saving money.

In other words, sometimes paying for a service you could selfhost is the right call. In most cases, if you can manage a self-hosting setup, your time is worth more than the cost of cloud services. TBH, I do it for data governance reasons more than cost.

It’s not either/or and it’s not about going “off-grid” for a lot of people.

Fastmail, LastPass and NordVPN

Pushover

Bitwarden and Email.

I trust a company like Bitwarden to handle uptime of my password manager more than I do myself. If most of my selfhosted services went down, I'm gonna be a little annoyed, but I can survive. If Bitwarden goes down, that's a real PITA.

And email, because f**k trying to self host email successfully, I've accepted I'll just have to use a commercial provider for emails. I'll try and set up a self hosted server at some point, but on a separate domain and most likely just to mess around/learn.

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

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.

1password, best $36 spent. I also pay for YT premium.

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.

mullvad is worth it for not having any data caps

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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

Spotify. Todoist and bitwarden.

Not vps but adjacent: I have a Dreamhost storage account to sync my Joplin notes. It's so very very smol it barely costs anything. The notes are E2EE with a key I own.

Why not just self host Bitwarden, or Vaultwarden?

I only pay for iCloud+ for mail