5 costs of self-hosting that nobody talks about
I can attest to all of these reasons. Just today and yesterday I've been solving an issue with my docker networks grabbing 192.168.x.x addresses ranges (after the upgrade to OMV8 overwrote the daemon.json file I'd customised to prevent this). And two days before that I was having mysterious freezes on my server which “eventually” came down to a cheap Chinese 2A power supply to one of my RAID disks (well I'll know for sure after a new ATX power supply arrives tomorrow).
So, yes you do save subscription costs, but you spend more time diagnosing issues, additional costs upgrading hardware, and taking your data in your own hands.
I still think it is worth it, but to be honest, it may really not be a cost saver at all. If I think of what I've spent on server hardware, UPS devices, additional NAS drives, a network cabinet, a firewall and switches that support VLANs, a VPS hosted service, etc. I'm suspecting if I put that US$900 or so aside and just used it for subscription services, maybe I'd still have money left
Some services, like my password manager and todo list manager, I do actually pay for cloud services, because they are absolutely critical and cannot be down.
But there is also the fun factor to self-hosting, as well as having home services up when the Internet is offline.
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5 costs of self-hosting that nobody talks about
Self-hosting is awesome, but few veterans mention these potential downsides
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