Electrical costs to run a home web server

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I do not drink beer and I shave my head.  I used to get a haircut every 
other week for $20.  Yikes that is $520 a year....

We rarely eat out since it might be $40 for my wife and I at your garden 
variety Mexican restaurant.

Went to Panda Express yesterday and it was $24 and change for 2 people.  
Too expensive for me.

We have gotten to the point we do not eat fast food either - once a 
month maybe.

Side Note:

Panda was $18 before Covid.  Went to 5 guys about 4 months ago and food 
for 2 was over $30.  Cheeseburgers.... Yikes.  Not going back.

A lot of people are saying we are in a hyperinflation period.  I lived 
through the hyperinflation of the mid 70's until things calmed down in 
the mid 80's. At one point mortgage rates were 19%... yes you read that 
right.




On 2021-07-21 10:01, greg zegan wrote:
> People spend about that a month for haircuts and I'm sure on beer.
> 
>  On Wednesday, July 21, 2021, 10:34:01 AM EDT, 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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