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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Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

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AP WiFi Access Point
ISP Internet Service Provider
NAS Network-Attached Storage
NUC Next Unit of Computing brand of Intel small computers
NVR Network Video Recorder (generally for CCTV)
Plex Brand of media server package
PoE Power over Ethernet
RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disks for mass storage
RPi Raspberry Pi brand of SBC
SATA Serial AT Attachment interface for mass storage
SBC Single-Board Computer
SSD Solid State Drive mass storage
ZFS Solaris/Linux filesystem focusing on data integrity
Zigbee Wireless mesh network for low-power devices
nginx Popular HTTP server

14 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 17 acronyms.

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