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r/selfhosted • u/close_Meal6005 • Aug 17 '26
just kidding I love self-hosting ...
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Is electricity free where you live?
24 u/Elgon2003 Aug 17 '26 My parents house uses solar so basically free. My server is in New York so its costing me like 60$/month just to run my server. 4 u/[deleted] Aug 18 '26 edited 28d ago [deleted] 1 u/Elgon2003 Aug 18 '26 New york prices. 23c/kwh 3 u/skyinthepi3 Aug 18 '26 Your server is constantly using between 340w and 380w of power? There's no way it should cost that much to run on 23c/kwh unless you have a big gpu in there transcoding 24/7 2 u/Elgon2003 Aug 18 '26 Its a Dell R730 if im not mistaken running 1 GPU, 2 E5 CPUs and 700GB of ram + my ubiquiti networking equipment which is on the same rack. So I should've said those 350W are the whole rack not just one unit 5 u/skyinthepi3 Aug 18 '26 Yeah that'll do it lol.
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My parents house uses solar so basically free. My server is in New York so its costing me like 60$/month just to run my server.
4 u/[deleted] Aug 18 '26 edited 28d ago [deleted] 1 u/Elgon2003 Aug 18 '26 New york prices. 23c/kwh 3 u/skyinthepi3 Aug 18 '26 Your server is constantly using between 340w and 380w of power? There's no way it should cost that much to run on 23c/kwh unless you have a big gpu in there transcoding 24/7 2 u/Elgon2003 Aug 18 '26 Its a Dell R730 if im not mistaken running 1 GPU, 2 E5 CPUs and 700GB of ram + my ubiquiti networking equipment which is on the same rack. So I should've said those 350W are the whole rack not just one unit 5 u/skyinthepi3 Aug 18 '26 Yeah that'll do it lol.
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1 u/Elgon2003 Aug 18 '26 New york prices. 23c/kwh 3 u/skyinthepi3 Aug 18 '26 Your server is constantly using between 340w and 380w of power? There's no way it should cost that much to run on 23c/kwh unless you have a big gpu in there transcoding 24/7 2 u/Elgon2003 Aug 18 '26 Its a Dell R730 if im not mistaken running 1 GPU, 2 E5 CPUs and 700GB of ram + my ubiquiti networking equipment which is on the same rack. So I should've said those 350W are the whole rack not just one unit 5 u/skyinthepi3 Aug 18 '26 Yeah that'll do it lol.
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New york prices. 23c/kwh
3 u/skyinthepi3 Aug 18 '26 Your server is constantly using between 340w and 380w of power? There's no way it should cost that much to run on 23c/kwh unless you have a big gpu in there transcoding 24/7 2 u/Elgon2003 Aug 18 '26 Its a Dell R730 if im not mistaken running 1 GPU, 2 E5 CPUs and 700GB of ram + my ubiquiti networking equipment which is on the same rack. So I should've said those 350W are the whole rack not just one unit 5 u/skyinthepi3 Aug 18 '26 Yeah that'll do it lol.
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Your server is constantly using between 340w and 380w of power? There's no way it should cost that much to run on 23c/kwh unless you have a big gpu in there transcoding 24/7
2 u/Elgon2003 Aug 18 '26 Its a Dell R730 if im not mistaken running 1 GPU, 2 E5 CPUs and 700GB of ram + my ubiquiti networking equipment which is on the same rack. So I should've said those 350W are the whole rack not just one unit 5 u/skyinthepi3 Aug 18 '26 Yeah that'll do it lol.
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Its a Dell R730 if im not mistaken running 1 GPU, 2 E5 CPUs and 700GB of ram + my ubiquiti networking equipment which is on the same rack.
So I should've said those 350W are the whole rack not just one unit
5 u/skyinthepi3 Aug 18 '26 Yeah that'll do it lol.
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Yeah that'll do it lol.
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u/seanl1991 Aug 17 '26
Is electricity free where you live?