Not to mention that a lot of self-hosting can be done on hardware you already had laying around.
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starshipwinepineapple@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
I submitted a response but if i may give some feedback, the second portion brings up:
I am willing to pay a substantial amount for hardware required for self-hosting.
This seemed out of place because there were no other value related questions. Such as:
- I believe self hosting saves me money in the short term
- i believe self hosting saves me money in the long run
I’m sure you could also think of more. But i think it’s pretty important because between cloud service providers and any non-free apps you want to use, it can be quite costly compared to the cost of some hardware and time it takes to set things up.
The rest of my responses don’t change but if you’re wanting to understand the impact of money in all of this i think some more questions are needed
Best of luck!
modus@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
rekabis@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
And I self-host precisely because of the money I save using surplussed hardware. I have a symmetrical 1Gb SOHO fibre connection from my ISP, so I can host whatever the hell I want, I just need to stand it up. And a beefy older system with oodles of RAM is perfect for spinning up VMs of various platforms for various tasks. This saves me craploads of money over even a single VM on cloud platforms like Vultr. Plus, even if I were to support a “heavy” service sufficiently in demand to warrant its own iron, it still costs me less than a year’s worth of hosting to obtain a decent platform for that service to run on all by it’s lonesome.
My only cloud costs end up being those services which are distributed for redundancy and geographical distance, such as DNS and caching CDNs.
modifier@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
My only quibble would be to swap “pay” for “invest” which captures both the dynamic of up front expense and expected savings from ending recurring subscription fees. That’s how I look at it. Every penny I put into my own digital sovereignty is an investment that will yield returns both financial and otherwise.
satxdude@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
I saved money by stea- I mean borrowing - work equipment
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Second this - so far it has cost me money, but as I am able to cancel more subscription services, the savings will add up.
AbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.space 4 weeks ago
I can add to the voices here that have this as one big consideration. With some second-hand hardware, it’s very cheap to set up almost unlimited cloud space for personal use.
Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
A lot of questions about ease of use, but I answered them neutral because some are bears to set up, others are one click. Idk it depends.
ulterno@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
And unless you are expecting significant traffic, you can use an old Core2Quad with 2GB RAM and it will work just fine.