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.

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Its not actually cheap but im all for my proton enterprise plan.

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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.

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

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Bitwarden & PurelyMail for me.

I have just loaded $10 initially for PurelyMail & it works great for simple outbound emails from my homelab services.

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Bitwarden & PurelyMail for me.

I’m using PurelyMail with my own domain but frustratingly emails from my homelab are being blocked by apple.

I guess it’s the reputation of my Domain? I’ve setup SPF, DKIM and DMARC but no dice.

I’ve (recently) started using Cloudflare for my nameservers so thinking about setting up their DMARK and possibly even move my Domain over to them from IONOS. If it makes any difference, who knows.

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Hertzner storage box for backups 1tb cheap as chips Daily backups from proxmox

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Do you encrypt the backups? I’m interested in learning more about this process.

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If you are sending any of your data from your home lab to an outside server that you personally do not control then yes, you should ALWAYS encrypt the backups (unless it’s crap you don’t care about like your tax returns, credit card details, passwords, etc.)

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How do you I encrypt the files before copying them to a remote server/storage?

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Any other cheaper options? Not looking for a tb. Even 100gb is good with me.

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I recently got myself a storage box, too. If I’m not mistaken, there’s no smaller option than 1 GB.

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Scaleway offer up to 75GB of their Object Storage for free and only start charging when you go over.

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That’s traffic not storage.

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Blackblaze B2 costs me pennies using 50GB of storage. $0.18 last month

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Backblaze is great and transparent

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Damn ok that’s cheap, even for a small business this looks like a great option for off-site backups.

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Have you tried restoring from it? I’ve read about pretty gnarly situations where they have corrupted the data and even lost it (raid failed)

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Is there a service like this in the USA?

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It’s not cheap, but I pay for Spotify because overall I’ve been pretty happy with it. It has a good selection of features, lots of content, and it works pretty well for the most part. The only real complaint that I have is that the offline mode isn’t great.

An actually cheap service that I pay for is addy.io, and even though I haven’t been using it much, so far it has been working pretty well.

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I used to pay for Spotify, but they kept removing features I liked, and last time I used it, the Android app was just absolute garbage. They’re also missing alternate releases and bonus tracks on just about every album on there.

Their shuffle feature is also absolutely whack, it will play like the same 10 songs over and over from a playlist of hundreds of tracks.

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Their shuffle feature is also absolutely whack, it will play like the same 10 songs over and over from a playlist of hundreds of tracks.

Same thing here. I can’t seem to figure out how it decides what to play. Sometimes I’ll actually forget that I added certain songs to my playlist because one day Spotify will just decide to play it.

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Try Deezer. Better sound quality too.

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I do this but for Tidal Family because I’m a bit of a snob.

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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.

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What do you use nextdns for? Whats the difference between this and a vpn?

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