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What is your self hosted power draw? (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 days ago by roofuskit@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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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.

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[–] LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 22 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I can't believe I'm the lowest power draw at 50w. I thought that was pretty high.

That includes all my network hardware, my NAS, and my server. Basically everything that is "always on"

[–] tburkhol@slrpnk.net 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

All these people saying 500, 600, 700+ watts - it's almost hard to believe. My "gaming" computer, with two monitors, peaks around 400W on graphics-heavy games, and the monitors are like 120 of that. I suppose, though, if you're running a server-class CPU, a half dozen HDDs, and a GPU for continuous transcoding or mining, the it wouldn't be too hard to get there.

I run a dozen containers on an N100 with a couple of HDDs, VOIP device, router & cable modem on 63W, and I've considered that a pretty fair deal for a home lab. Of course, that only serves the household - nothing really offered to the public.

[–] Dultas@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

My rack server uses 150W idle. Granted that's 2 processors and 48 cores, 256GB ram, and 8 case fans that you can't cycle less than 35% even though they don't need to be anywhere near that high.

[–] InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 days ago

I mean, my phone charges at 60W. Granted, it's not charging 24/7 but 50W is pretty good indeed.