I am trying to capture costs for starting into homelab/selfhosting.

VPNs, search engines, absolutely everything and anything.

  • SuspiciousCarrot78@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I was tempted to say $0, but then I thought harder about the problem.

    Technically I do have ongoing costs

    • PAYG costs for Usenet-news (iirc, $22USD for 500GB block)

    https://usenet-news.net/index1.php?url=home

    • News indexer (I think…$60 every 5 years?)

    https://www.nzbgeek.info/

    Electricity (whatever tiny amount raspberry pi sips). At a guess, maybe $50/yr.

    So, amortised over time - very low but not zero. In theory, if I dropped Usenet, it would even lower. And theoretically, I could run the pi off a single solar panel and a diy solar kit but I’m not busy pretending to be Robinson Crusoe just yet. Though… It might be a cool project.