I’ve never done this before, but here we go.
Apps and services
Adobe Photography Plan: 3,823.20 INR/year. I use Photoshop regularly and Lightroom sometimes. I like the Lightroom mobile app.
Bear Blog: I pay yearly using purchasing power parity (thanks, Herman). Two years in, I’m planning to go lifetime next year.
Voicenotes.com: 50 USD for lifetime (2024). Early adopter and daily user of this product. They've recently removed the believer plan.
OneDrive Personal: 4,899 INR/year. 1TB of cloud storage and MS gimmicks.
LetsVPN: 26.76 USD/month (4 accounts). Reliable in China but limited to 2 profiles per account, so I run four of these. My backups are OpenVPN and Shadowsocks configs on RackNerd and DigitalOcean servers. For users outside China, Nord or Proton might be a better pick.
Streaming
Prime Video: 1,499 INR /year. Decent content, though regional restrictions can be frustrating.
Netflix Mobile: 149 INR/month. iPad-friendly, and there’s always something new to explore.
Shudder: 6.99 USD/month. I’m new here and haven’t decided whether to switch to the yearly plan yet.
VPS
RackNerd: 16.98 USD/year (2GB RAM, 30GB KVM VPS) & 38.88 USD/year (3.5GB RAM, 80GB KVM VPS). Both based on Ubuntu 22.04 64 Bit.
DigitalOcean: 3 droplets. Bills covered by referral credits.
Domains
Yes, there's a problem here, and I'm working on fixing it.
- Porkbun: 66.23 USD/year
- Dynadot: 457 CNY/year
- Namecheap: 15.16 USD/year
- zone.ee: 25.11 EUR/year
- Cloudflare: 22 USD/year
- spaceship.com: 34.04 USD/year
- nic.org.mt: 8.47 EUR/year. (Malta’s nodal agency offers two-letter .mt domains at cheaper rates)
- upflare.com: 26.97 EUR/year. (Best for .al domains at competitive prices)
- rumahweb.com: 450,000 IDR/year. (Best for .id and .my.id domains)
I'll revisit this page next year.