Hello self-hosters,
Black Friday and Cyber Monday are just around the corner!
What self-hosted services or software licenses are you hoping to score deals on?
Are there any lifetime licenses or subscription services that you’re waiting for a discount on?
Let’s discuss and explore new gems!
Nothing. I have zero trust anymore when it comes to actual sales vs fake sales they doubled the price a month before and cut it in half again for black friday. I’m boycotting black friday/week/month.
4x 4TB IronWolf drives. Trying to build a NAS.
Post seems to be focused on the software side, and I’m running mostly community projects that don’t have a license cost. I do plan on doing some Open Source Christmas Gifts this year to creators by sprinkling around some $$ to folks that have a “Buy Me a Coffee” or similar.
Renewing my usenet subscriptions.
A good deal on proton VPN
Plexpass and a Beelink N100
Usenet providers and indexers, along with VPNs typically go on crazy discount for black Friday. Yearly or sometimes even lifetime subs for anywhere between 50 to 75 percent off.
Few things, Unraid License, HDDs 2 to 3 16-20 TB, wifi 6e mesh system, seedbox, usenet indexers lifetime License…
Synology surveillance station license- if it comes on offer!! not sure if it ever has
The ms01 from minisforum been eyeing it out for a long time. I really want to host more services but don’t have the space for another mini pc right now
A duck ton of drives. Surviving on a single 4TB. Will probably get a few 12TBs
My wish is an actual discount and not the company jacking up the price 50% the day before black Friday only to drop it back down to the original price and mark it “50% off”.
Buy as many GPUs as I can to build an agentic AI network.
Half the cost of bandwidth… i pay about 50 EUR/mo for 250/250 Mbps currently.
Multiple refurbished i5 8500 sff systems to swap out my raspberry pis for k3s, a 12+ tb hard drive for my jellyfin and another 4tb ironwolf for my synology to retire the one wdred 3tb thats stuck in there, because i’m too broke to replace it with a 4tb ironwolf. 
Duplicacy Lifetime Licence (as it was offered 2023)
A beefy but cheap VPS to play with IA 
I might upgrade my unraid from starter to a higher tier, if it’s lifetime or the other depends on how much.
Other than that I’ll probably just look for some harddrives.
Maybe if I am lucky I can grab a a 5700x3D so I can use my old 5600G as my server rather than my old i7 3770k.
I don’t pay for software or SaaS, so… nothing, I guess?
I run everything on FOSS.