Selfhosters what is the power draw of your entire setup? And have you done anything special to manage it you’d like to share?

Including all network equipment I use around 110kWh of good ol’ 120V 60Hz USA juice per month. Averaging about 215 watts of power draw for my systems. Nothing amazing, but I like to think that it’s a conservative setup for everything I accomplish with it. I’m paying around $25 a month for my setup. None of that includes my work PC or personal PC, just hosting infrastructure.

Other than trying to make sure all power states are available on my server I haven’t done a lot of power conservation.

I’m curious what you all have.

  • 𝚝𝚛𝚔@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    I worked good out a whole ago, so here’s a copy and paste:

    I have a power monitoring plug on this setup, so I can tell you exactly how much!

    CPU: 2 x Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-2680 v4 @ 2.40GHz
    RAM: 512 GiB DDR4 Multi-bit ECC

    My disk layout is like so:

    This draws a fairly consistent 650W, including a POE router (15.6kwh per day). My current electricity price is 39.38c/kwh… HOWEVER I have a cheap rate of 8c/kwh between midnight and 6:00am, and free power between 11:00am and 2:00pm. I also have solar which tends to cover ~10:00am to ~2:00pm, but its dependant on sunlight so I’ll ignore it for now.

    So:
    12:00am-06:00am = ($0.0800/kwh * 0.65kw) * 06 = $0.312
    06:00am-11:00am = ($0.3938/kwh * 0.65kw) * 05 = $1.279
    11:00am-02:00pm = ($0.0000/kwh * 0.65kw) * 03 = $0.000
    02:00pm-12:00am = ($0.3938/kwh * 0.65kw) * 10 = $2.559

    Total = $4.15AUD per 24 hours, or $1,514.75AUD per year

    My Merross plug is showing that I’m currently averaging a daily consumpion of 15.021kwh, and I’m not accounting for the hours of solar offset so the actual dollar value will be a little lower. But still. Fair few bucks.