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.
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
That is showing just CPU power draw. I have a minipc that sips 2W idle according to onboard stats but wall meter shows 18W.
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.