Selfhosters what is the power draw of your entire setup? And have you done anything special to manage it you’d like to share?
Including all network equipment I use around 110kWh of good ol’ 120V 60Hz USA juice per month. Averaging about 215 watts of power draw for my systems. Nothing amazing, but I like to think that it’s a conservative setup for everything I accomplish with it. I’m paying around $25 a month for my setup. None of that includes my work PC or personal PC, just hosting infrastructure.
Other than trying to make sure all power states are available on my server I haven’t done a lot of power conservation.
I’m curious what you all have.
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Server PC has a mean draw of ~46W
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters AP WiFi Access Point ISP Internet Service Provider NAS Network-Attached Storage NUC Next Unit of Computing brand of Intel small computers PoE Power over Ethernet RPi Raspberry Pi brand of SBC SATA Serial AT Attachment interface for mass storage SBC Single-Board Computer SSD Solid State Drive mass storage Zigbee Wireless mesh network for low-power devices
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My various servers, firewall and nas are relatively power optimized. Everything including switches (most with some 10g ports) and access points is 160 W or so combined. I can’t give you monthly usage, as I’ve got solar+battery so it’s frequently just 0 kWh for some days. It’s also rather hard to separate from the other power usage in the house when solar doesn’t fit cover it.
Around 700W on low load, almost idle. Haven’t had the chance to test it at full load yet.
It sits in my basement, so the waste heat is actually useful this time of year. Even more so when my basement would actually be freezing.
I plan on implementing scheduling where the two most power hungry servers are powered down and up as needed. The other two take almost nothing.
Also, the UPS supports a green mode that is a lot more efficient but with a downside of output side dropping out a few ms. This removes any conversion loss. I haven’t tested whether my hardware can tolerate it yet, so for now I’m living with the conversion loss.
My house is powered by cheap hydroelectric supply, generated in a mountain roughly 5km from my house, so I’m not worried.
I can’t believe I’m the lowest power draw at 50w. I thought that was pretty high.
That includes all my network hardware, my NAS, and my server. Basically everything that is “always on”
I mean, my phone charges at 60W. Granted, it’s not charging 24/7 but 50W is pretty good indeed.
About 230w at idle with 3 servers, 2 routers, switch with PoE for umpteen devices, 16 spinning hdds.
Around 150W for UPS, Mikrotik router, Pi 4, Proxmox/TrueNAS server with 8x SAS drives. Without the SAS drives I’d be closer to 50W, but how else am I going to heat up my cupboard? I got the SAS drives at a bargain price thankfully… I estimate about AUD300/year in electricity.
Way too damn much, around 700w between 4 rack servers and associated gear
Wow, that’s quite a bit.
If I recall right off hand it’s 92 cores, 64+8+8+12 between them. Been looking to merge a couple of the smaller ones into the others but it’s not a small task.
90w here, so 65kwh/mo. Tinyminimicro server. Three pi (5, 4, 3B), fiber gateway, Mikrotik router, switch and two APs. Plus power gear (managed PDU and UPS).
My UPS says 116 watts right now, but it’s probably not particularly accurate. That’s running my pfSense box, NAS, switch, 2 access points, Starlink and a mini PC. That’s with minimal disk and internet activity. My CCTV cameras and DVR use another 30 W in the day and 50 W at night.
NAS sits at 24w idle. Security cams are drawing 19w of poe power, but I suspect there is a bit more being used in total. I have another NUC using probably around 24w max.
I’ll slap some power meters on the switches and main nuc and try get some more accurate numbers.
i3-4160 running Proxmox (OPNSense VM and a couple of containers) with 3 spinny drives and no GPU, TP-Link 8x GbE switch, ASUS AX1800 as a Wifi AP, ISP’s own manky cable modem, plus a UPS eats about 66-72 watts at the wall socket. If I install a passively cooled GT-710 for transcoding, it adds 10-15 watts at idle.
If btop is to be believed my server pulls a tiny 1.5W on idle. Given everyone else’s numbers I’m wondering if that’s true of btop is confused. It’s an old optiplex 3050.
Regardless my main rig which is regularly running expensive simulations is often ~200W so my server and home labbing is a rounding error
Unlikely, as it isn’t being measured from the outlet. That being said, an idle server technically could be that low, but literally every part would have to be the most efficient version of what it is, and almost nothing happening on the server.
There are USB chargers that use more than that sitting at idle.
Yeah that was my feeling. It seemed unrealistically low.
Just checked my ups. Looks like I’m currently drawing 125W. That’s a NAS, 3 laptops, router, modem, AP, bookshelf pc, and switch.
Just checked my UPS. It sits at 105W for:
- HP Mini PC
- Synology 4 Bay NAS
- DrayTek Router
- Mikrotik 16 Port Switch
- PoE Switch
- 3 AP’s
- 1 Raspberry Pi 3B
- 2 NanoKVM
