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

VPNs, search engines, absolutely everything and anything.

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[–] SuspiciousCarrot78@aussie.zone 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (24 children)

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.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

You might want to consider Premiumize for Usenet (and torrent cache) at that price. Catch it on the Black Friday sale. I think it does NZB as well.

[–] SuspiciousCarrot78@aussie.zone 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Torrent cache? As in seedbox?

[–] ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 days ago

Essentially its a paid seed box. It has most things already cached, and if it doesn't, you can copy in a magnetic link and it'll torrent it for you and save it to your account cloud (and presumably make it available for other users but it counts against your credits so delete it when you've watched it).

Personally, I've rarely had to get it to pull a feed for me, it has nearly everything I've wanted cached already.

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