On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 09:11:19AM -0500, Casey O'Donnell wrote: > >I run a rack full of hardware, which is about 30-40 EUR worth of > >electricity/month. > >The lighting part doesn't even register on the financial radar. > > Are you running servers from home? Or run a business out of your home?
Most of my hardware (not that much) is running in a rented rack at my hoster (by the way, it's the best deal for rack rental I've found so far, just 99 EUR/month, with about 0.0952 EUR/GByte and 0.1904 EUR/kWh: http://hetzner.de/colocation_rack.html ), where it takes some 2.4 A at 220 V at the moment (a little bit more, actually), which is about 0.6 kW. If my math is correct, that's about 1 kEUR/year, or about 83 EUR/month. I have a file server at home which does tor, 3rd DNS server, domestic file serving, random crunch and development testing, soon accounting, asterisk, fax server, etc. > Processing something full time? Just curious why... It's supposed to become a business at some point. I don't crunch anything right now, just running a bunch of Linux vservers serving random stuff. > When I lived in the dorms in college we ran tons of hardware and > probably used more power than we needed to. When we moved off campus > four of us were running [EMAIL PROTECTED] One month we all turned it off an > our power bill dropped significantly (by roughly 20%). I certainly notice the one file server at home in the power bill. > Since then we've all been a bit more conscientious about not running > hardware that doesn't need to be run. > > Oh, and for you PS2 owners out there (and Xbox/Xbox360 owners) these > systems "leak" tons of power in standby mode. Better to unplug them. I have a ton of wall warts here which aggregate up to some considerable background drain. I wish I could install solar PV, and run everything ~12 V directly off the 12-24 V battery with DC/DC converters. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
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