On Jul 23, 2021, at 8:13 AM, Stephen Partington via
PLUG-discuss <[email protected]
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I hit send too soon, All of this hosting aside. I have 3
dedicated servers, one is a dual Xeon server with 80-some GB
ram, it runs as a VM host for all sorts of things for me. and
2 mac mini's one is a windows server (I know but
professionally speaking this is a good thing for me to keep
in touch with). and the other is a linux server. they are a
great low-power solution. (look for older 2012 models if you
go this route)
On Fri, Jul 23, 2021 at 8:09 AM Stephen Partington
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
For cost/efficiency, it is hard to beat some of the
online hosting options. Dreamhost has a shared plan with
unlimited everything and a domain for 9 per month (down
to 3 for 1 or 3 years paid upfront) 10 per month Ifor a VPS.
On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 3:45 PM Brian Cluff via
PLUG-discuss <[email protected]
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I think you'll find that server of yours used closer
to $500 than $120. Based on the 600watt number that
you gave your usage would look like this on SRP right
now under their normal flat rate plan:
Months Number of Days Kwh Cost Machine Load in
Kilo watts Cost per hour(KWH cost times wattage)
Cost per day(Cost per hour time 24 hours) Total Cost
(Cost per time period)
May, Jun, Sep, Oct 122 0.1091 0.6 0.06546
1.57104 191.66688
Jul,Aug 62 0.1157 0.6 0.06942 1.66608
103.29696
Nov, Dec, Jan, Feb, Mar, April 182 0.0782 0.6
0.04692 1.12608 204.94656
Grand Total 499.9104
Even if you machine used half the power you specified
it would still be about twice what you thought it was.
I always recommend that people don't use their old
computers when it comes to use cases like using them
for routers because it's MUCH cheaper to buy
something like a PI or a dedicated router than it is
pay for power to feel a machine that uses waaay more
than you need to.
With a raspberry pi under worst case useage with it
being use to 100% capacity you'd only get charged
$6.32 per year, but it would most likely be closer to
it's idling cost of $2.82 for power:
Months Number of Days Kwh Cost Machine Load in
Kilo watts Cost per hour(KWH cost times wattage)
Cost per day(Cost per hour time 24 hours) Total Cost
(Cost per time period)
May, Jun, Sep, Oct 122 0.1091 0.0076 0.00082916
0.01989984 2.42778048
Jul,Aug 62 0.1157 0.0076 0.00087932
0.02110368
1.30842816
Nov, Dec, Jan, Feb, Mar, April 182 0.0782 0.0076
0.00059432 0.01426368 2.59598976
Grand Total 6.3321984
Brian Cluff
On 7/21/21 3:50 PM, Eric Oyen via PLUG-discuss wrote:
Back when I ran a home server on my Athlon X2 with 1500 W
supply, the machine never drew that much. Even with several disks spinning, 8
VMWare instances going and a few other goodies, that machine never drew more
than 600w at maximum. I kept it live 24/7 for a few years and it added less
than $120 yearly to the electrical bill. These days, that machine is out of
service and is only good for parts. My Mac mini, which draws at most 100 W
under full load is on 24/7 and I don’t even see it add that much to the
electrical bill here. There are really only 3 high draw appliances in this
house now:
1. The refrigerator
2. The stove/oven
3. The master cool evaporative cooler. Everything else either
runs on wall warts or only gets used occasionally. In fact, we spend less than
$150 a month here for electric. Now, if I put that Athlon X2 back into service,
we might see $10 a month in extra use. I am still contemplating putting it back
up and using it as my go to linux development machine.
-Eric
From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Utilities
Dept.
On Jul 21, 2021, at 7:33 AM, Keith Smith via
PLUG-discuss<[email protected]>
<mailto:[email protected]> wrote:
Hi,
I just read this quote about the electrical costs to run a web
server from home:
Cost: While it may sound cheaper to use that computer lying
around doing nothing when creating your web server, when you factor in the cost
of powering an old computer 24 hours a day, it can get very expensive. A 250W
desktop computer running 24 hours per day at 12 cents per KW/h is a whopping
$262.00 per year!
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I think their math is wrong.
The average residential electricity rate in Chandler is
10.85¢/kWh.
I'm thinking a low traffic PHP web server running on an old
Dell with a 400 watt power supply is not using but maybe 100 watts on average.
I've read that the computer should use no more than half the power supply
capacity. Is this correct?
If my home web server is using 100 watts an hour that mean 100
watts * 30 days * 24 hours or 72K watts.
I'm thinking 72 * .1085 = $7.81 a month.
Any thoughts are much appreciated.
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