Comment on If you are not in a tech field, what got you into self-hosting?

• 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

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  • 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.

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    • cenotaph@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I went for the full meal deal after getting some practice in, home server + raid array

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