tools and services

inspired by [tomasino](https://tomasino.org)'s recent [post](
https://labs.tomasino.org/freelancing-tools-services/), i'd like to
detail some of the stuff that i rent and use.

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## recurring costs

some of these are monthly, others are annual

* [server rental](https://www.ovh.com/world/dedicated-servers/infra/infra-2/) - 
  $135/month, 64gb model, 2yr contract discount
* [proxmox](https://www.proxmox.com) - my preferred hypervisor. i find it useful
  enough and worth paying the annual license to use the official package mirrors -
  $80/year
* domains - includes [tilde-related ones](https://tilde.wiki/domains) and
  my personal ones (about 10 or so) - about 30 domains totaling $500/year
* offsite backups at [rsync.net](https://www.rsync.net/) - i use the [borg offering](
  https://www.rsync.net/products/attic.html) for a discount since versioning
  is handled by my backup software - between $60-$70/year

my out of pocket expenses are a little over $2k per year.

note that i use the server and backups for personal stuff in addition to tilde
related things.

the current expenses are totally manageable as is, but if you've got some spare
cash and want to pitch in towards tilde hosting costs, i have a [donate page](
https://bhh.sh/donate).

## software i run, use, and maintain

these are all free/open source.

#### operating systems

* [ubuntu](https://ubuntu.com)
* [debian](https://debian.org)
* [alpine linux](https://alpinelinux.org)
* [freebsd](https://freebsd.org)

#### platforms/software

these are things that i run and maintain for tilde.team and the tildeverse

* [mastodon](https://joinmastodon.org): [tilde.zone](https://tilde.zone)
* [pleroma](https://pleroma.social): [pleroma.tilde.zone](https://pleroma.tilde.zone)
* [nextcloud](https://nextcloud.com): [cloud.tilde.team](https://cloud.tilde.team)
* [gitea](https://gitea.io): [tildegit](https://tildegit.org)
* [inspircd](http://inspircd.org), [anope](http://anope.org): [tilde.chat](https://tilde.chat)
* [postfix](http://www.postfix.org/), [dovecot](https://dovecot.org/), [rspamd](https://rspamd.com/), 
  [rainloop](https://www.rainloop.net/): [tilde.team email](https://mail.tilde.team)
* [cryptpad](https://github.com/xwiki-labs/cryptpad): [pad.t.o](https://pad.tildeverse.org)
* [privatebin](https://privatebin.info/): [paste.t.o](https://paste.tildeverse.org)
* [0x0](https://github.com/lachs0r/0x0): [ttm.sh](https://ttm.sh)
* [lobsters](https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters): [tilde.news](https://tilde.news)
* [tt-rss](https://tt-rss.org/): [rss.t.o](https://rss.tildeverse.org)
* [drone](https://drone.io): [drone.tildegit.org](https://drone.tildegit.org)
* [mailman](https://docs.mailman3.org/en/latest/): [lists.t.o](https://lists.tildeverse.org)


#### our own software

there are also a handful of other sites that we've written collaboratively
among tildeverse peeps:

* [quotes db](https://tildegit.org/tildeverse/quotes): [see it live](https://quotes.tilde.chat)
* [tildeverse zine](https://tildegit.org/tildeverse/zine): [see it live](https://zine.tildeverse.org)

see the [tildeverse org](https://tildegit.org/tildeverse) and [team org](https://tildegit.org/team)
on tildegit for more projects :)


this has diverged a bit from my costs into all the stuff that i do. i suppose
that means that the main cost is my time and energy. in general, these things
are hands-off in the day-to-day and only take time when there are updates or
something breaks.

tags: tilde, sysadmin
