Selfhosters what is the power draw of your entire setup? And have you done anything special to manage it you’d like to share?
Including all network equipment I use around 110kWh of good ol’ 120V 60Hz USA juice per month. Averaging about 215 watts of power draw for my systems. Nothing amazing, but I like to think that it’s a conservative setup for everything I accomplish with it. I’m paying around $25 a month for my setup. None of that includes my work PC or personal PC, just hosting infrastructure.
Other than trying to make sure all power states are available on my server I haven’t done a lot of power conservation.
I’m curious what you all have.
NAS running ~15 docker (frigate, nextcloud, immich, plex etc), two windows VMs one is managing my NAS backups to cloud.
Couple RPIs one does Home assistant, one does pihole and weewx.
All my Network gear, and poe for APs and a few of my cameras,
2 x 12 channel whole house amps fed by 11 Chromecast audios (that’s going to be a disaster one day)
That “idles” just under 300w but can obviously jump all over.
Rest of my security cameras are poe from another location (since I couldn’t get the network drops back to the server room for the majority of the cameras, uses another 65w , but that’s a bit misleading as it is picking up other things since it’s not as isolated.