My entire server rack uses about 150wh so 24/7 it calculates out to about 11.50 USD
Similar wattage, but that calculates to about 44€ per month cries in german electricity costs
- HP 800 G3 mini with Proxmox mainly running Home Assistant, a VM used to host docker with Jellyfin and other lightweight containers, and another VM running PiHole and PiVPN
- Synology DS218+
- Synology DS120J
- AVM FritzBox 7530 Router/Modem
Somewhere between 40 and 50W during the day, with the Synologys active depending on drive sleep status, and 23-24 at night with those shut off
On average about 0.9 kWh per day.
129kWh/month (approx $10.2)
…100% solar powered…
Next step: a home battery for night usage… (or can you compensate night usage with solar too? In that case: lucky you! (Where I live this is now impossible, so i bought a battery))
In eu for 35$ wish to have usa prices
atm im not running much since not much time to lab, just the base stack.
about 35€/mo for 650w average consumption.
Currently drawing that daily… sometimes a lot more…
Idk I have cheap electricity, 7c day 6 night so I just have it on its own
I have one server I built around a 13100f cpu. 2 3.5” hdds, 2 2.5” ssds and an nvme for boot. ~35w at normal use which runs me ~7c/day ~$24/year (upstate NY USA)
17 watts. HP 800 g1
Everything running I’m sitting at 392w
About 300W, ~7kWh a day, costs me about $80 AUD a month.
Mine is sadly over an order of magnitude higher than this…
UPS load - 50W average. 13¢/KW. About $4.8/month
My lab is around 65-70W, thats Router + Switch + Server (Ryzen 3600 + 3x 3.5"HDD)
oddly 48 port 1gb switch was eating more power then thread ripper builds(2 of them)
i went to a fanless netgear 24 port switch for 25 bucks.
was 30 extra on top of Normal bill.
this will cut bill down by 20 alone.
Old PoE switch? I have some 3750s that don’t see regular action because they’re loud, hot, and powerhungry
That’s nice! How could you do that,plz share your set up! thanks!
Here https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/s/SQY5S8HM2b I downsized it to only host1 moved all there, now Host2 is a gaming PC and main utility pc. I shutdown or suspend it everyday. Host1 is the only alwayson server now.
Btw, the grafana + prometheus setup is very cool you can even get alerts rp ur email and phone. I’d probably do a tutorial for how to do it since grafana dpcumentation is a bit confusing at times.
How do you collect the usage data? Is there hardware involved?
Everything is connected to the APC UPS battery so I use apcupsd daemon in linux to get the data