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