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What is your "inexpensive" hobby that turned out to be expensive/ you gradually invested lots of money into?

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Edit: so it turns out that every hobby can be expensive if you do it long enough.

Also I love how you talk about your hobby as some addicts.

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Admiral Patrick@dubvee.org
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Self-hosting apps / homelab

Getting used enterprise gear is not prohibitively expensive, but the electric bills balloon very quickly.

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anteaters@feddit.de
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I’m glad I quickly stopped “homelab” after my old laptop that I used as a server in a cupboard died. Switched to a rented root server for all my selfhosting needs since.

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PlexSheep@feddit.de
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I currently bought an old desktop from a friend that I use as my Homeserver.

  • I bought 3 HDDs for storage
  • I rent a VPS
  • I rented Proton to host mail for my domain, but switched to netcup groupware because that sucked.
  • Some domains
  • Electricity

Wow I thought it was way more.

One time costs: ~500€ Monthly costs: ~15€ Plus electricity, but I have solar. I assume it’s about 150€/year

But I’m a cheap selfhosted, but eventually, I will have a huge ass Enterprise Level Rack in my basement.

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Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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We need a r/homeDatacenter on lemmy!

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PlexSheep@feddit.de
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Would be cool if we found some kind of use for the community of people that likes to host network infrastructure. We could be a cdn or share compute, with the power of the federation!

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