this post was submitted on 05 Feb 2024
39 points (93.3% liked)

Selfhosted

40296 readers
284 users here now

A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don't control.

Rules:

  1. Be civil: we're here to support and learn from one another. Insults won't be tolerated. Flame wars are frowned upon.

  2. No spam posting.

  3. Posts have to be centered around self-hosting. There are other communities for discussing hardware or home computing. If it's not obvious why your post topic revolves around selfhosting, please include details to make it clear.

  4. Don't duplicate the full text of your blog or github here. Just post the link for folks to click.

  5. Submission headline should match the article title (don’t cherry-pick information from the title to fit your agenda).

  6. No trolling.

Resources:

Any issues on the community? Report it using the report flag.

Questions? DM the mods!

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

Pretend your only other hardware is a repurposed HP Prodesk and your budget is bottom-barrel

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 23 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Sell. I don't run a data center and I'm not a cloud provider. I have a meager home server with some stuff plugged in and serve some tv shows. I want this to be as low foot print as possible. If it goes over 10w idle, I'm shutting it down lol.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If I remember correctly, every watt is around $1 a year. So a 100 watt server costs $100 a year every year to run. 12 SAS drives and the server is going to be expensive to keep running.

[–] AceBonobo@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

1W would be 8.769kWh per year. Pricing is regional.

[–] seang96@spgrn.com 1 points 9 months ago

It can also vary by time and day. I got that setup since I use more at night, but in general power companies average that throughout the day.

[–] jkrtn@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What's your hardware? 10w sounds great to me. I just started a new build and have to play around to see if I can get better C-states while idle.

[–] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

11th gen NUC. Much faster than a RPI4, more power if needed (for things like Zigbee USB adapters, external drives..) while still maintaining low power draw on idle. It will jump to 20-30W when transcoding but I dont mind higher power draws when im actually using the thing.

Neofetch Temps

[–] Dumbkid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Damn 10watts? My server has a 5800x in it(my old cpu) and I have never seen the system pull less than 130watts

[–] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Yeah a lot of people will say to just use your old PC thats lying around and it is a great way to start and learn but if you want something with a lower footprint (low power, quiet, cool) you're better off buying something more suited to that task. Laptops or mini PCs are much more suited to that.

Id love to have a server rack one day but I just cant justify it drawing so much power when I can live with the drawbacks of a smaller server.