---
title: Subscriptions & Paid Services
created: 2026-05-24
updated: 2026-05-24
type: concept
tags: [services, infrastructure, billing]
confidence: high
---

# Subscriptions & Paid Services

## Overview

Comprehensive catalog of all paid subscriptions — both self-hosted services (infrastructure Chris pays for) and external SaaS/cloud services.

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## External Subscriptions (Paid Services)

### Cloud Infrastructure

| Service | Cost | Purpose | Payment Method |
|---------|------|---------|----------------|
| **Cloudflare** | ~$20/mo | DNS + proxy + TLS certs for `*.tophermayor.com` | Credit card |
| **Backblaze B2** | ~$7/mo | Off-site backup storage (Cold tier, ~2TB) | Credit card |

### VPN

| Service | Cost | Purpose | Payment Method |
|---------|------|---------|----------------|
| **NordVPN** | ~$12/mo | WireGuard tunnel for media stack downloads | Credit card |

### Development Tools

| Service | Cost | Purpose | Payment Method |
|---------|------|---------|----------------|
| **GitHub** | ~$4/mo | Private repos (copilot, actions) | GitHub billing |
| **Obsidian Sync** | ~$8/mo | Vault sync across devices | Obsidian account |

### Historical / Retired

| Service | Cost | Purpose | Status |
|---------|------|---------|--------|
| **Tailnet (Tailscale)** | ~$5/mo/person | VPN mesh for outside players to reach Bedrock servers | Active for Bedrock sharing only |
| **Backblaze Personal** | — | Decommissioned — B2 replaced this | Retired |
| **Google Workspace** | — | Decommissioned — moved to self-hosted | Retired |

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## Self-Hosted Services (Infrastructure You Pay For)

These are services Chris runs on homelab hardware. The "cost" is the hardware + power + internet, not a subscription fee.

### Primary Infrastructure Hosts

| Host | Hardware | Cost Basis | Role |
|------|----------|-----------|------|
| **ubuntu** (Proxmox VM) | Intel NUC or similar | Power + hardware amortized | ~70 containers: Traefik, media stack, Gitea, monitoring |
| **grizzley** | Raspberry Pi 5 | ~$150 one-time + power | Edge ingress, Traefik ACME, Minecraft Bedrock, Hermes |
| **ice** | Raspberry Pi 4 | ~$100 one-time + power | OpenCode control node, Hermes gateway |
| **pve** (Proxmox) | Bare metal | ~$800 one-time + power | Hypervisor for ubuntu VM + TrueNAS VM |
| **truenas** | TrueNAS SCALE VM | Runs on pve | 36TB raw storage (ZFS), NFS exports |

### Self-Hosted Services (No Subscription Fee)

All of these run on homelab hardware — no per-service license fee:

| Service | Host | URL | Purpose |
|---------|------|-----|---------|
| **Traefik** | ubuntu + grizzley | `traefik.local.tophermayor.com` | Reverse proxy / ingress |
| **Authentik** | ubuntu | `auth.tophermayor.com` | SSO identity provider |
| **Gitea** | ubuntu | `gitea.tophermayor.com` | Private Git server |
| **Jellyfin** | grizzley | `jellyfin.tophermayor.com` | Media streaming |
| **Immich** | ubuntu | `immich.tophermayor.com` | Photo/video backup |
| **Sonarr/Radarr/Lidarr** | ubuntu | `sonarr.local.tophermayor.com` etc. | Media automation |
| **Prometheus + Grafana** | ubuntu | `grafana.local.tophermayor.com` | Monitoring |
| **Home Assistant** | panda | `ha.tophermayor.com` | Smart home hub |
| **Vaultwarden** | grizzley | `vaultwarden.tophermayor.com` | Password manager |
| **OpenCode** | ice + ubuntu | `opencode.tophermayor.com` | AI coding assistant |
| **Hermes Agent** | grizzley + ice | Port 8644 | Telegram AI agent |
| **Navidrome** | ubuntu | — | Music streaming |
| **Kavita** | ubuntu | — | Ebook/comic reader |
| **Audiobookshelf** | ubuntu | — | Audiobook/podcast server |
| **Tdarr** | ubuntu | `tdarr.local.tophermayor.com` | Media transcoding |
| **Komodo** | grizzley | `komodo.local.tophermayor.com` | Container management |
| **Uptime Kuma** | grizzley | — | Uptime monitoring |
| **Minecraft Bedrock** | grizzley | — | Game server |

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## Cost Summary

| Category | Monthly Cost |
|----------|-------------|
| Cloud services (Cloudflare + Backblaze) | ~$27/mo |
| VPN (NordVPN) | ~$12/mo |
| Developer tools (GitHub + Obsidian) | ~$12/mo |
| Hardware (amortized over 3 years) | ~$30/mo |
| **Total** | **~$81/mo** |

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## Related

- [[ubuntu]] — primary Docker host running most services
- [[grizzley]] — edge ingress node
- [[ice]] — OpenCode control node
- [[truenas]] — storage with B2 backup tier
- [[media-stack]] — media automation services
- [[monitoring-pipeline]] — alerting and observability