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

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by plactagonic@sopuli.xyz to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] ptz@dubvee.org 112 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Self-hosting apps / homelab

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

[–] PlexSheep@feddit.de 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We need a r/homeDatacenter on lemmy!

[–] PlexSheep@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

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!

[–] davefischer@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I ran a "midrange" Sun at home for about ten years. The electric bill was painful, but I never had to turn on the heat in the winter.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But the summers :(
27°C at home during the hotter days was atrocious.

[–] davefischer@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, hot days were bad.

[–] anteaters@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] mdd@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Yep. Half height rack, a couple servers, UPS, switch, etc.

And I still keep looking at used gear. Being in Silicon Valley there is always a deal to be had.