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.
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If btop is to be believed my server pulls a tiny 1.5W on idle. Given everyone else’s numbers I’m wondering if that’s true of btop is confused. It’s an old optiplex 3050.
Regardless my main rig which is regularly running expensive simulations is often ~200W so my server and home labbing is a rounding error
Just checked my UPS. It sits at 105W for:
- HP Mini PC
- Synology 4 Bay NAS
- DrayTek Router
- Mikrotik 16 Port Switch
- PoE Switch
- 3 AP’s
- 1 Raspberry Pi 3B
- 2 NanoKVM
Around 150W for UPS, Mikrotik router, Pi 4, Proxmox/TrueNAS server with 8x SAS drives. Without the SAS drives I’d be closer to 50W, but how else am I going to heat up my cupboard? I got the SAS drives at a bargain price thankfully… I estimate about AUD300/year in electricity.
Way too damn much, around 700w between 4 rack servers and associated gear
Wow, that’s quite a bit.
If I recall right off hand it’s 92 cores, 64+8+8+12 between them. Been looking to merge a couple of the smaller ones into the others but it’s not a small task.
90w here, so 65kwh/mo. Tinyminimicro server. Three pi (5, 4, 3B), fiber gateway, Mikrotik router, switch and two APs. Plus power gear (managed PDU and UPS).
NAS sits at 24w idle. Security cams are drawing 19w of poe power, but I suspect there is a bit more being used in total. I have another NUC using probably around 24w max.
I’ll slap some power meters on the switches and main nuc and try get some more accurate numbers.
i3-4160 running Proxmox (OPNSense VM and a couple of containers) with 3 spinny drives and no GPU, TP-Link 8x GbE switch, ASUS AX1800 as a Wifi AP, ISP’s own manky cable modem, plus a UPS eats about 66-72 watts at the wall socket. If I install a passively cooled GT-710 for transcoding, it adds 10-15 watts at idle.
Currently, 2 servers and 2 3d printers, I’m running just over 200w at idle. Depending on what my printers and servers are doing at any given moment, it could go up to 2000w, total, but I haven’t seen that high a power draw since I stopped contributing to Boinc projects about a year ago. I remember finding it mildly amusing that my graphics cards had a higher power draw then my printers.
Just checked my ups. Looks like I’m currently drawing 125W. That’s a NAS, 3 laptops, router, modem, AP, bookshelf pc, and switch.
Around 300wh.
- router
- sw with 4 poe cams
- 2 minipcs as servers
- pc used as nas with truenas
My nas takes about 40 Wh. And my network machine (proxmox + openwrt) about 20 Wh. When I upgraded my nas a year ago it was actually drawing twice as much, I have since then switched to more efficient processor (amd from normal to E) and I took out graphic card that I didn’t use. I could have in theory merge those two, but I wanted to separate networking from nas+apps. I don’t know how much my smart devices take but I don’t have many so it can be up to 50 Wh total maybe. But that is more smart home than self hosting 😀
Around 90 Watts for modem, server (which includes router VM), network switch and access point. It runs on solar most of the time
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.
65W for
- two Lenovo tiny proxmox nodes, each with nvme + SATA SSD + second NIC
- two switches (5/8 port)
- PCengine APU running OpnSense
- Raspi4 with Zigbee antenna
- Mini PC + JBOD (4 SSD in total)
- Small OpenDTU device
Keeping power consumption low was my design goal, but I eventually added the secondary NICs and additional switch for Proxmox replication and management traffic.
My network and server setup eat about 200 W, split right down the middle. I have plans to cut the network consumption by replacing the PoE switch, so that I can use the savings to add another server.
So it’ll still be about 200 W, but more useful.
