My Bitwarden renewal came through this morning. It’s still $10 per year. I was about to cancel, but I thought what the heck at $10, I’ll keep it on out of principle and to show support.
I also have a tutanota encrypted email, which costs little more than pocket change over the year. I hardly use it, but it’s there.
I wondered then, if this community had any little gems to share - services they pay for that are let’s say under $30 annually. I think we can exclude VPS, since lots of people will probably have them already.
I’m going to cross post at /r/opensource too.
I pay for bitwarden because it’s so cheap, and yet I love what they offer. It’s able to be selfhosted, which is why I’m willing to trust it. The service I pay for is protonvpn. I need a vpn just for a few generic things like bypassing locked down networks that prevent me from using ssh, and I trust protonvpn enough to use it for smth like that.
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.
VPS for wire guard tunnel, because fucking ISP CGNAT $5/month
Usenet provider and private indexer roughly $10/month
Cloudflare + VPS
(Obvious disclosure, I am the one running the service)
If support for open source is what you are looking for, may I suggest taking a look at Communick? It basically takes the open source alternatives for social media and messaging platforms, and packages them for easy access and setup. There are packages for Mastodon, Lemmy or Matrix each of them for less than $10/year and fully managed. I’m pledging to take 20% of the profits and contribute to the upstream projects.
I pay like $5 a month for web hosting. Not worth it to self-host a public e-commerce site on my own network.
Real-debrid and bitwarden, both are amazing and dirt cheap
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.
I don’t get this. So bitwarden knows all your passwords? Doesn’t that kind of make you feel uneasy?
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.
Noip $25/year
Spotify. Todoist and bitwarden.
Strongbox App for iOs, allows me to access my Keepass password file on my iPhone.
