how much do you spend a month/year on IT services such as cloud storage, vpn, etc?I spend about 23 bux a month for proton Workspace Standard (VPN, 1 TB and some fluff like password manager etc) and iDrive 5TB. I could drop the iDrive, but I don't like to have all my eggs in one basket, so I have 2 different back up providers, plus I need decent VPN service.It seems like a lot of money, but I don't wanna risk losing all my data when my hard drives break or my house gets burglarized. (unlikely, but possible)I feel a bit ambivalent about it all, sometimes I want to cancel everything to frugal maxx, but then I get worried and cancel the cancellation and keep it.it's tax deductible for my business so it's not really a big deal, but still, I don't feel completely fine with paying 23bux a month and probably it will get more expensive with inflationwhat do you do
>>109547201>Paying per monthSwitch to anually subscriptions to save serious money
>>109547201I'm usually all for taking control and doing it yourself but honestly dude just stay with the setup you have. If cost and redundancy for backups are your concerns ~20 bucks a month is about as cheap as you can hope to get. Technically you could achieve better $/month ratio with external hard drives and just a VPN subscription but only if you value your own time rotating drives between locations so you have physical redundancy at 0$ an hour.Basically unless you have a cost free pre-existing PC or server offsite where you could pop in a dedicated backup drive or two just don't bother and with current HDD prices it's just not cost efficient.
>>109547496I pay 30 euros a year for 1fichier, which provides 4tb of cold storage
>>109547506They still offer those deals to new customers? I thought they shut them down a while ago.
>>109547506>I pay 30 euros a year for 1fichier, which provides 4tb of cold storagedamn good deal
>>109547433I have annual subscriptions thats part of the reason why I have "good" prices, but I was calculating it to a monthly cost
>>1095472014TBs of cloud mail ru FREE then hundreds of ondrive student accounts at 100GB a pop FREE
>>109547201$140/yearlyI save nothing, it's not fucking worth itMaybe my graphic design portfolio on a fucking USB
