Live data from Hacker News

Ask HN: What are the three most expensive tools/services that you use?

news.ycombinator.com

41–50 of 114 posts

Re: Ask HN: What are the three most expensive tools/services that you use?

#41
post #5

If we’re talkiing regular monthly expenses: - Health Insurance for family of four: €118 - Accountant: €99 - Apple One Subscription: €19.95

Wow, that's pretty good value. in Germany it's a lot higher unfortunately. I'm on the public health insurance which costs around €800 p.m - my company pays half.

Is that income based?

Re: Ask HN: What are the three most expensive tools/services that you use?

#43
post #28

Apart from living, my digital expenses are: 1.) DigitalOcean Droplet with backup, 15CHF/month (hosts my cloud, several small containers) 2.) IDE (Intellij), 14 CHF/month 2.) Mindmapping tool (miro.com), 14CHF/month 3.) Webhosting (cyon.ch), 12CHF/month 4.) Budgeting (ynab.com), 6CHF/month 5.) Backup Storage (wasabi.com), 5 CHF/month

Do you mind asking me what kind of cloud you are storing?

I've tried deploying a Nextcloud instance via Docker-Compose to a Free Tier EC2 on AWS and found the CPU to spike randomly to 100% and require a machine restart to free up.

I'm a noob at docker, so it might be a configuration issue on my part, but it's pretty bare and I can't figure out if it's a docker thing or a machine performance thing.

If it's a machine performance thing, I'd be willing to pay to scale up, but I was wondering if I could have your thoughts on this. Thank you.

Re: Ask HN: What are the three most expensive tools/services that you use?

#44
post #43
post #28

Apart from living, my digital expenses are: 1.) DigitalOcean Droplet with backup, 15CHF/month (hosts my cloud, several small containers) 2.) IDE (Intellij), 14 CHF/month 2.) Mindmapping tool (miro.com), 14CHF/month 3.) Webhosting (cyon.ch), 12CHF/month 4.) Budgeting (ynab.com), 6CHF/month 5.) Backup Storage (wasabi.com), 5 CHF/month

Do you mind asking me what kind of cloud you are storing? I've tried deploying a Nextcloud instance via Docker-Compose to a Free Tier EC2 on AWS and found the CPU to spike randomly to 100% and require a machine restart to free up. I'm a noob at docker, so it might be a configuration issue on my part, but it's pretty bare and I can't figure out if it's a docker thing or a machine performance thing. If it's a machine p…

I am running a pretty vanilla setup using a docker compose file for each deployment:

- traefik as reverse proxy and for https termination

- nextcloud (the apache based container)

- statping

- matomo

- small things if needed

This runs on a 10$/month basic droplet + backup

Re: Ask HN: What are the three most expensive tools/services that you use?

#46

Car: fully paid, but still 1500 €/year for insurance, 500 €/year in taxes and ~2500 €/year for gas. But I love it, it's a necessity to go to work, but also a pleasure to drive. Electricity: 85 €/month Internet access: 27.5 €/month

You must live in Scandinavia?!?!

1500 / year in insurance! 500 / year in taxes! Wow ...

I pay $12 / month in car insurance, and $130 / year for registration (taxes).

Re: Ask HN: What are the three most expensive tools/services that you use?

#49
post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Actually not at all, you have to be stationary for Starlink

Due to temporary limitations as the constellation is still incomplete. Otherwise, it will be perfect for boats.

They'll also have to fix power consumption. Now the antenna uses 3-4X the daily power consumption of _everything_ on my cruising boat.
Post reply on HN