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I moved all my stuff to a home server, it pulls about 45W and costs me roughly £5/m in electricity costs. It will take about 2 years for me to recoup the hardw

I moved all my stuff to a home server, it pulls about 45W and costs me roughly £5/m in electricity costs. It will take about 2 years for me to recoup the hardware costs with savings over what I was previously paying for a VPS. The one major improvement over renting a VPS is that I've now got a large RAID array with many terrabytes of storage, where I previously only had a few hundred gig to play with.

julianlam 6y ago
You're saving money, but this doesn't necessarily translate to energy savings, the excess you were paying was overhead for the VPS company. While a server in a typical DC would use way more power than a home system, it's also theoretically possible that they are running at near 100% load, meaning all that energy is used doing SOMETHING, whereas your home PC is burning watts at idle.