What are your favourite, or least favourite but necessary, cost-cutting methods?

I feel I am spending too many resources on unnecessary stuff.

Edit: I feel the need to reduce both – the resources, to host multiple things on one system, and cost, to buy/pay for multiple systems. Currently, I have 2 ARM VPSes and 1 old MacBook Air as a home server.

  • redcalcium@lemmy.instituteEnglish
    5·
    9 months ago

    Running stuff on my bare metal servers is my go to cost saving measure. Why rent 2 VPSes if you can buy some old thin clients and turn them into linux servers, etc.

    • nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.deOPEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      Two reasons, basically. First, I am behind CGNAT. Second, electricity in my area is somewhat cumbersome, I need some services to be always online.

        • thelittleblackbird@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          9 months ago

          Something that is usually forgotten is that cgnats are only there for ipv4. Running your server in ipv6 is almost a safe bet to have good connectivity.

          And you know, these days getting a real ipv4 is more expensive than running in ipv6

        • nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.deOPEnglish
          2·
          9 months ago

          They rely on TLS-termination. I self-host for privacy, so I need TLS-passthrough. Cloudflare wants me to buy their enterprise plans for that.

    • Rootiest@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      Yeah this is probably my biggest.

      Device which things can be hosted on a local server and which are best on a vps