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You have 20 servers at home? What's you electrical bill like?

• wkat4242 4y ago
  Last month's electricity bill was about 75€ including electric heating, VAT and fixed charges. I do get 2 hours free per day during which I run the heading full blast at the moment, and other high energy stuff. Most of my servers are not always on, some are in the cloud and some are virtual. The ones that run 24/7 are NUCs which have excellent idle energy usage. The bigger ones are HP microservers but like I said those just run when I need them (there's about 100 TB of archive storage in them). And then I have some raspberries to run my home Assistant and some other stuff. All in All I have about 10 real 'servers', 5 running 24/7, the rest are remote or virtual (one of the NUCs is an ESXi). Plenty of resources for a decent home lab. With the recent increase in electricity prices I did move one of the microservers from 24/7 to on-demand.
  • account-5 4y ago
    > Last month's electricity bill was about 75€ including electric heating, VAT and fixed charges. Damn, I'm double+ that a month with turning everything off at the plug each night and during the day when not on. Just one of the benefits of living in post-brexit UK, with a lame useless gov... Anyway nevermind. Always wanted to do the home assistant thing with one of my rpi, but can't afford it just now.