I usually use a mental rule of thumb that for every watt of 24/7/365 power consumption costs about $1 per year. Obviously this is failing as electric rates keep going up. So to first order of magnitude a 100 watt server would cost around $100 a year, but if the server was using the whole 400 watts it would cost more like $400 a year. >> 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. KINDNESS is most VALUABLE when it is GIVEN AWAY for FREE