---
title: How Much I Pay to Have a Website
description: The cost of the Abisphere, itemised and amortised
publishedDate: 2025-02-19
updatedDate:
  - 2025-03-15
tags:
  - website
  - sysadmin
---
Well, less how much I pay to have a website and more how much I pay for my whole digital realm.

I was setting up a new server the other day when it struck me that I now pay for a fair amount of *things* to run my digital world on, but I don't actually have a great idea of how much that's costing me...

So I made a spreadsheet!

<table>
<thead>
<tr>
  <th>Provider</th>
  <th>Thing</th>
  <th>Cost (GBP)</th>
  <th>Yearly cost (GBP)</th>
  <th>Notes</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
  <td>Hetzner</td>
  <td>CX22 virtual server</td>
  <td>£3.27/month</td>
  <td>£39.24</td>
  <td>Main app server</td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td>Hetzner</td>
  <td>IPv4 address</td>
  <td>£0.50/month</td>
  <td>£6</td>
  <td>IP address for the main app server</td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td>Linode</td>
  <td>Nanode 1GB virtual server + IPv4 addr.</td>
  <td>£4.97/month</td>
  <td>£59.64</td>
  <td>Gateway server for my home server</td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td>Porkbun</td>
  <td>Domain 1</td>
  <td>£9.93/year</td>
  <td>£9.93</td>
  <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td>Porkbun</td> 
  <td>Domain 2</td>
  <td>£9.93/year</td>
  <td>£9.93</td>
  <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td>Porkbun</td>
  <td>Domain 3</td>
  <td>£10.21/year</td>
  <td>£10.21</td>
  <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td>Backblaze</td>
  <td>B2 storage</td>
  <td>~£1.10/month</td>
  <td>£13.20</td>
  <td>Backups and Docker container registry storage</td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td>Fastmail</td>
  <td>Business standard</td>
  <td>£47.76/year</td>
  <td>£47.76</td>
  <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <th colspan="3">Total yearly cost</th>
  <td>£195.91</td>
  <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <th colspan="3">Amortised cost per month</th>
  <td>£16.33</td>
  <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <th colspan="3">Hours of work required to fund this per month</th>
  <td>1hr9min</td>
  <td></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>

This suite of tech does all sort of things - from an instance of [Bookstack](https://bookstackapp.com), Gitlab, [Copyparty](https://github.com/9001/copyparty), [Firefly III](https://www.firefly-iii.org/) and lots more. Together, they form a pretty useful part of my life.

I have three servers - one main application server (the Hetzner one), one server I run at home (with lots of storage and plenty of RAM) and one server (the Linode one) as a gateway for that home server to avoid punching a hole in my home firewall. Those figures don't cover that home server. I don't know the power consumption of that machine, so I can't work out the running cost - all I have is the upfront amount I've spent on it.

Either way, for the amount of things I run (which is, depending on how you count them, 18 distinct services), I'd say the numbers work out pretty well - at about 91p per service per month.

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# Update 2025-03-15

Since initially writing this article, I nuked the Linode server - it was expensive and I realised I didn't really need it. I took some services off of the public internet and moved the other ones to be routed through the Hetzner server.