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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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[–] the@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Just domain for $11 a year.

The home server is running on old laptop so I guess slight electricity too. ISP doesn't really count since I work from home and need to pay for that anyway.

I have lifetime Windscribe VPN and Koofr 1TB, which are not subscriptions.