Self-Hosted Main

I think my domain is basically what I pay for.

Bitwarden and NextDNS. They're so cheap so what the heck.

• CopyMeThat shopping lists, meal plans, recipes. Lifetime price was $25 (which currently brings it to an annual price of $2.8 for me :D), and it has better features than selfhosted versions. Still would like to switch, especially after they had an annoying outage, but still holding out for improvements in the oss versions.
• Nabu Casa Cloud (Home Assistant), mainly to support them, some minor benefits.
• Open AI API, because getting a GPU that can run any decently sized LLM would cost decades of what I pay Open AI ;)
• Backblaze Personal Backups for my PC and B2 for my server
• Mullvad VPN forrrrrrr nothing special.

Strongbox App for iOs, allows me to access my Keepass password file on my iPhone.

Quite a bit of stuff: Fastmail, domain registrar, Spotify, Netflix, Prime Video, Apple TV+, Microsoft Office 365 Family subscription (includes 1 Tb storage for 6 family members), GitHub copilot.

Bitwarden.. for me its for 2 reasons. One I dont have to deal with keeping something that needs to be super secure up to date. and 2 it help continue the project and its 10 bucks. I spend more then that one dumber stuff.

ChatGPT Plus is the only service I pay for. There's literally no substitute in my experience. Even with 10 million dollars, I couldn't effectively replace it with a self-hosted option.

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.

Unsure if this classifies as cheap but:

• BitWarden
• AnonAddy - I use the extension and create an email for every website. Wish I knew this years ago.
• Proton Unlimited for email and VPN
• YouTube Premium - I watch a lot of YT and this is a great use of money. YT Music has also great radio station generation, in fact I think better than Spotify and Apple Music in my experience.
• Apple Music for the car and less less/Atmos audio. It’s lovely in the living room.

BackBlaze, 1Password, mxroute, Spotify, different usenet indexers

Thats about it

Obsidian

Email (Tutanota), Cloud backups (B2), VPN (Mullvad)

Deezer - better sound quality than Spotify - good family plan Bitwarden - of course MS365 - family plan for $100 a year. 1Tb cloud storage, and all the MS apps for 5 up to ppl

I pay for a small VPS thats running my mail server and other extremely important services.

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.

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.

Even though I have a lifetime LastPass subscripion I still choose to pay the $10 bucks and stay with Bitwarden not just becuse I wanted the yubikey support, its also just so simple to use and I love its simplicity. Its also polite and does not bring any extra bloatware. Its really quite good value. It just does its job really nicely

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?