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.
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.
Believe it or not, self-hosting! I went from renting a VPS for $40 a month, to purchasing an entire $150 machine at home, plus $50 or so in additional storage, plus a $20 a month VPS solely to bypass NAT restrictions… plus a few hundred dollars more when I first started, because I cheaped out on components and managed to brick not one, but two Intel BIOSes trying to update them.
and the power cost from old inefficient enterprise hardware
Keep at it. My self-hosting passion is what eventually got me into a successful career.
Out of curiosity, what career did you land in?
DevOps.
Don’t worry about that one! I’ve been working in digital for about ten years already, self-hosting is a nice side gig I have for my own amusement