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.

    • YankeeLimaVictor@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      My expressVPN 2year plan is about to expire in February. I am seriously considering switching to Proton, especially since I already use protonMail as the inbox for my Anonaddy instance. What’s your experience with Proton?

      • DelightMine@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        I also have the proton suite, I love all of them. The only one I haven’t used is calendar, but everything else is great. The only complaint I have about their VPN is that port forwarding is mildly annoying and not automatic - but most people wouldn’t care, and it’s really very minor.

  • Fortera@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Bitwarden and Email.

    I trust a company like Bitwarden to handle uptime of my password manager more than I do myself. If most of my selfhosted services went down, I’m gonna be a little annoyed, but I can survive. If Bitwarden goes down, that’s a real PITA.

    And email, because f**k trying to self host email successfully, I’ve accepted I’ll just have to use a commercial provider for emails. I’ll try and set up a self hosted server at some point, but on a separate domain and most likely just to mess around/learn.

  • lmux@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I don’t get this. So bitwarden knows all your passwords? Doesn’t that kind of make you feel uneasy?

  • solonovamax@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    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.

  • gluebabie@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Bitwarden is weird because it’s a service I could easily self host but I really don’t mind paying for because it’s pretty critical that it experiences maximum uptime and tinkering and I trust their data center. I also like supporting the company and I appreciate that the product just works.

    • linuswong@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I took the time to teach my kids how to use a password manager with Bitwarden on my self hosted instance. But my wife asked me what’s going to happen if I die. I’m confident in minimal downtime while I’m alive, but it’s important that my family’s passwords can outlive me. So I wound up purchasing the family plan.

    • MrSliff84@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      No problems with uptime running vaultwarden as a docker on a hetzner vm. Only thing I am missing is some sort of SSO integration.

    • Jealy@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I hate to say it, but “this”.

      It works fantastically, it’s not expensive, it’s one of the more critical services in my stack, and I get to support the company.

      No brainer.

    • rayjaymor85@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Same.

      I could absolutely self-host it, but at the price they charge it makes no sense to do so especially as it means I can support it’s development.

    • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
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      10 months ago

      If you don’t mind me asking: what type of business is it that would require encrypted emails?

      I’m quite happy with migadu, and it falls in the < $30/year category even with multiple emails and mailboxes.

      • CJOtheReal@ani.socialEnglish
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        10 months ago

        Its not just about the emails, they are basically just a side product of the VPN and Storage (and now the password app)

  • AnApexBread@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    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.

  • DrunkOnKnight@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    VPS for wire guard tunnel, because fucking ISP CGNAT $5/month

    Usenet provider and private indexer roughly $10/month

    • ShoeShowShoe@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Usenet provider and private indexer roughly $10/month

      I should try those… I can never force myself to use them, but I bet they are amazing to have.

      I’m tired of torrents…

      • billgarmsarmy@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        I made the switch in the summer of 2022 after nearly two decades of exclusively using torrents. I’ll never go back to torrents for anything media related again.

    • Kenya-West@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Yeah. Same. VPS for $4/mo for the purpose of VPN. In addition to WireGuard, I host X-UI dashboard which runs ShadowSocks-2022 and VLESS/VMESS/XTLS-Reality, all on top of XRay core.

      All relatives and friends are using this VPN, no complain.

    • Daniel15@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Does your provider not offer IPv6? That’s usually the best way to avoid all NAT, including CGNAT.

    • Daniel15@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      $5/m is pretty expensive for a VPS if you’re just using it for Wireguard. A $15/year 2 GB RAM / 20-ish GB SSD VPS would be totally fine for that use case.

      Black Friday is coming up… The best time of year for VPS deals. Even without Black Friday deals, providers like GreenCloudVPS (their “Budget KVM” packages) and RackNerd have good deals.

    • bobbarker4444@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      $10/m for 1 provider and 1 indexer?

      If you hunt around this black friday you should be able to get a better deal than that. For reference I have 1 unlimited provider (newshosting) for about $30/yr and 2 indexers each around $15/yr

  • secondanom@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Im into fitness so: Lose it! and Hevy (dont know if there are good selfhosted alternatives)

    Mullvad Bitwarden Goodnotes cuz im studying right now and make notes on my iPad

  • dazchad@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Fastmail and nextdns. I’m still paying for iCloud, but I intend to move everything to my local server.

    I go on and off streaming services: Disney, Hulu, Netflix, HBO.

    Amazon Prime, which includes a bunch of goodies.

    Kindle Unlimited. I usually wait for promotions since there isn’t a ton of material I like that I haven’t read yet. Also I’m rather busy lately.