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What is your annual electricity cost for that server in your closet?
by throwaway2037 2y ago
What is your annual electricity cost for that server in your closet?
- christophilus 2y agoI’d like to know this too, along with how you mitigate traffic spikes while using the internet connection as both your home internet and your public internet.
- dangus 2y agoThere are no traffic spikes, it’s not serving web content to the public internet. I probably should have been a little more clear that I don’t think VPS systems are bad or anything, it’s just that they aren’t well-suited to game servers and hardware in my closet is well-suited to it. I was spending almost 20 euros a month for a single Hetzner cloud instance that performed worse than all my gaming VMs on my closet computer. But if I was serving a public website or app I would probably not want it going through my home internet.
- dangus 2y agoI don’t know but probably a bit under $5 a month if 35 watts is my guess at the system idle. I haven’t bothered metering it.