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My home server is about 70W, meaning about 150€ a year (~0.20 eur/kWH). So about 12€ a month. For one of my biggest hobbies. It’s fun, but it also runs WireGuar
by teekert 5y ago
My home server is about 70W, meaning about 150€ a year (~0.20 eur/kWH). So about 12€ a month. For one of my biggest hobbies. It’s fun, but it also runs WireGuard, 3 NextCloud installs, Home Assistant and Mosquitto, 2 MineCraft servers, a FoundryVTT instance, samba, sabnzbd, Unify Controller, an Nginx static site, LibreSpeed, VaultWarden and soon a Django site. Oh and a virtual desktop (vnc) I can always leave running with stuff open.
Do I need all of that? Meh, but it’s not bad value for money-wise IMHO. Perhaps mostly because I just enjoy it.
Edit: of course the thing itself was also quite expensive but not much more than a decent NAS which I think is a must for many people anyway.
- binkHN 5y ago> but it also runs ... MineCraft servers At least you have your priorities straight :P !
- josephcsible 5y ago> (~0.20 eur/kWH) Are such high electricity prices common in Europe? That's higher than it is in 49 of the 50 US states (assuming 0.20 EUR = 0.24 USD, and with Hawaii being the exception).
- cinntaile 5y agoIn Western Europe at least this is quite common. Mostly because politicians have discovered this as a great tax resource.
- selectodude 5y agoElectricity in the EU is really really expensive. That person is actually paying below average rates.
- zbrozek 5y agoThat's cheaper than California!
- mixermachine 5y ago0.30 Euro per kW/h in Germany
- AnssiH 5y agoI assume it varies a lot by region. 0.12 EUR/kWh for me (Finland, inc. transmission and tax).
- teekert 5y agoI never thought about it, as far as I know it’s been stable like this for years now… Gas is getting more and more expensive though.
- ta988 5y agoYes we should stop chastising people like that. You have long hair, you use more water, shampoo and drying. You drink coffee how many wh for that cup and its content. We could always find something in others where they consume more. My neighbors keep all their lights on almost all the time in every room. The other one has AC on all day to full power even when it is cooler outside... So complaining that someone uses a 50w/70w device for their hobby... meh . However I still believe we and the manufacturers should work to reduce idle power and consumption in general.
- teekert 5y agoOh I never felt chastised… before… I mean I agree with not wasting energy of course, but what we’re talking about here is really nothing compared to driving a car or making a couple of pots of tea a day, for example. I refuse to feel chastised!
- Aeolun 5y ago> My neighbors keep all their lights on almost all the time in every room Almost all the lights in my house are leds, even if I did this the cost would be negligible.
- teekert 5y agoYeah I think this is a thing of the old days, my father in law is also always on top of light usage. Once I calculated what a 3W led cost him if he let it run the whole year (about 6€) to forget it once in a while is really no reason to get cranky. Leaving a couple of 60W incandescent bulbs on for longer periods can increase a bill indeed, but with leds it’s really not worth being know as the guy that whines about the lights for, IMO.
- Aeolun 5y agoI don’t really think it’s about cost for these people. There’s something about a needlessly glowing lightbulb that is just offensive to them.