How much it costs to run this blog ?

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Everybody is blogging about how much it costs to run your personal blog.

After Kev, Horst, Roland, here is how much I pay on my side:

  • Domain name : €38.40 / year.

  • Dedicated server : €53.99 / month.

  • Total per year : €686.28

Compared to what other paid, it’s quite expensive.
The .io wasn’t probably the better choice since it’s ~24€ more than a .com.

Gandi is my preferred registar and I’ve been using it for … well I can’t remember exactly but more than 15 years for sure. Even if I used to self-host my own DNS servers using Bind, now I use the one they offer since it’s free and easy to use.

The dedicated server is quite powerful :

  • Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1220 V2 @ 3.10GHz
  • 32Gb RAM
  • 4Tb of disks
  • 100 Gb available for backups
  • SMS alerts

Of course, you can have your own blog for free using Wordpress.com for example or other ones available on the web. But you are quite limited in actions or options offered to you.

A dedicated server costs more but having many projects on the same host, I was ready to pay more for the freedom to use any software I want. Plus, working as a contractor, all these expenses are paid by my own company.

For example, you have the liberty to choose the operating system you want to use or specific kernels and modules. If you have some sysadmin knowledge and some time to administer your server, you can do whatever you want with your Linux, or even *BSD, box.

If I had to go for a free option though, I will definitely consider using ipfs. It’s quite easy to pin any content you consider important to ensure is retained over a long term. It’s not really trivial for non-technical people but if you spend some time reading the documentation, you should be ready to host your static site on ipfs.

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