Comment on If you are not in a tech field, what got you into self-hosting?
cenotaph@piefed.zip 2 weeks ago
I reached a breaking point with the number of SaaS that I was having to pay for monthly, so I started taking steps to eliminate my subscriptions one by one
A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 2 weeks ago
That’s interesting. Can you elaborate?
cenotaph@piefed.zip 2 weeks ago
I was paying for netflix, spotify, cloud storage, shared calendar software, the works. I’ve since moved my media watching to jellyfin, music to navidrome, storage to my server w/ offsite backups of critical files, baikal + open source calendar solutions. Anything I can replace with something I run myself, I do. And I’m always adding more. If you don’t count the fact that I keep expanding the scope of my setup and buying hardware, I save lots per month in subs of various kinds
A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 2 weeks ago
Aah, I did not consider Netflix & Spotify. yeah that makes sense. I never paid for those either. But of course you can only self-host media if you first get them from somewhere.
I do wonder who takes money separately/only for calendar hosting.
But yeah, all in all that amounts to a lot, and considering you can have a VPS with decent storage for under €10/mo. - it’s really the best solution.
cenotaph@piefed.zip 2 weeks ago
I went for the full meal deal after getting some practice in, home server + raid array