Self-hosting stuff is awesome if you have the skills.
I have been on a mission for the last 2 years to replace as many subscriptions as possible with self-hosted solutions. The subscriptions really had gotten out of hand, it had gotten to about $200 (AUD) a month.
Quick napkin math is that I have cancelled about ~$150 a month worth of subscriptions so far. The $500 office desktop I got for a home server is struggling at this point, but it's already paid for itself, so I will likely upgrade it to something much better later this year.
Currently I am in the process of replacing all the movie streaming services with Emby.
Spotify and Adobe lightroom is still on the todo list.
I will likely end up with Youtube, Fastmail and Borgbase being my remaining subscriptions once I am done.
I have been on a mission for the last 2 years to replace as many subscriptions as possible with self-hosted solutions. The subscriptions really had gotten out of hand, it had gotten to about $200 (AUD) a month.
Quick napkin math is that I have cancelled about ~$150 a month worth of subscriptions so far. The $500 office desktop I got for a home server is struggling at this point, but it's already paid for itself, so I will likely upgrade it to something much better later this year.
Currently I am in the process of replacing all the movie streaming services with Emby.
Spotify and Adobe lightroom is still on the todo list.
I will likely end up with Youtube, Fastmail and Borgbase being my remaining subscriptions once I am done.