Electrical costs to run a home web server

[Brian Cluff]

Get yourself a Raspberry pi 4, which should be more than powerful to 
learn on,  they only use 3.4 watts which should amount to just slightly 
more $2 per year, and when your done with your project you'll have a 
Raspberry PI... then you can make an any number of awesome things with 
it.  I must have a dozen of them around my house doing various things to 
make my life better.

Brian Cluff

On 7/21/21 10:29 AM, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>
> I think there might be some on this list that are struggling and that 
> is why they are here - cheep old hardware that runs Linux well.
>
> I need to watch my dollars and sense....
>
> The reason for the question is I am building a home web PHP server... 
> It is for learning.
>
> If it really cost $15 - $20 a month to run a server, then a $20 VPS at 
> Digital Ocean becomes an option for the same cost and D.O. gives more.
>
> I think anyone running their own web server or whatever they may need 
> is a great way to learn about the hardware and the software stack.
>
>
>
> On 2021-07-21 09:54, Michael via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>> $262 a YEAR. If you can't afford $22 more a month you need a less
>> expensive hobby.
>> Don't go out to eat one less time a month. Go to the movies one less
>> time a month. I'm sure you can figure out something else to do one
>> less time a month.
>>
>>
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>> 1
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>> On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 10:34 AM Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
>> <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I just read this quote about the electrical costs to run a web server
>>> from home:
>>>
>>> Cost: While it may sound cheaper to use that computer lying around 
>>> doing
>>> nothing when creating your web server, when you factor in the cost of
>>> powering an old computer 24 hours a day, it can get very expensive. A
>>> 250W desktop computer running 24 hours per day at 12 cents per KW/h 
>>> is a
>>> whopping $262.00 per year!
>>>
>>> ---
>>> I think their math is wrong.
>>>
>>> The average residential electricity rate in Chandler is 10.85¢/kWh.
>>>
>>> I'm thinking a low traffic PHP web server running on an old Dell with a
>>> 400 watt power supply is not using but maybe 100 watts on average.  
>>> I've
>>> read that the computer should use no more than half the power supply
>>> capacity.  Is this correct?
>>>
>>> If my home web server is using 100 watts an hour that mean 100 watts *
>>> 30 days * 24 hours or 72K watts.
>>>
>>> I'm thinking 72 * .1085 = $7.81 a month.
>>>
>>> Any thoughts are much appreciated.
>>>
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