What is your "inexpensive" hobby that turned out to be expensive/ you gradually invested lots of money into?

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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 705 points – 11 months ago

Edit: so it turns out that every hobby can be expensive if you do it long enough.

Also I love how you talk about your hobby as some addicts.

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I currently bought an old desktop from a friend that I use as my Homeserver.

I bought 3 HDDs for storage
I rent a VPS
I rented Proton to host mail for my domain, but switched to netcup groupware because that sucked.
Some domains
Electricity

Wow I thought it was way more.

One time costs: ~500€ Monthly costs: ~15€ Plus electricity, but I have solar. I assume it's about 150€/year

But I'm a cheap selfhosted, but eventually, I will have a huge ass Enterprise Level Rack in my basement.

We need a r/homeDatacenter on lemmy!

Pretty sure I’ve seen a few home lab communities already, one on lemmy.world even

Already aware of some of those! They are really cool.
But homelab aint datacenter (yet) ;)

Would be cool if we found some kind of use for the community of people that likes to host network infrastructure. We could be a cdn or share compute, with the power of the federation!