* Stuart Henderson <[email protected]> [2010-06-12 23:59]: > On 2010-06-12, Henning Brauer <[email protected]> wrote: > > * Nick <[email protected]> [2010-06-11 12:55]: > >> If you want low power consumption and low cost, I'd suggest a small > >> PIII or Celeron based system, hard to beat for the price (usually, > >> free!). IF the new, cool stuff has any real power savings, you are > >> unlikely to ever recoup the initial cost over recycled hardware. > > > > that might be (I am not convinced tho) with the electricity price in > > the US, but certainly isn't universal. > > > > Especially the price of electricity in externally owned datacentres (*) > - and restrictions on current drawn; there are still places which allow > just 4A (@240V) per rack footprint (and 8A/footprint is fairly common).
I know of one DC that limits you to 8A per rack (@230V) because the floor would collapse if people filled up their racks... -- Henning Brauer, [email protected], [email protected] BS Web Services, http://bsws.de Full-Service ISP - Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS Services Dedicated Servers, Rootservers, Application Hosting
