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Lemmings, what's your self hosted server power usage? (self.selfhosted)

submitted 9 months ago by verstra to c/[email protected]

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I'll just come out and say it: 50W. I know, I know an order of magnitude above what's actually needed to host websites, media center and image gallery.

But it is a computer I had on-hand and which would be turned on a quarter of the day anyway. And these 50W also warm my home, although this is less efficient than the heat pump, of course.

What's your usage? What do you host?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I use an Intel SBC with 10W TDP CPU in it. With a HDD and after PSU inefficiency, it draws about 10-20W depending on the load.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That's impressive.

What do you use the system for? And services like PiHole or media server?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

That’s impressive.

Yeah, you really don't need a lot of CPU power for selfhosting.

It's a J4105, forgot to mention that.

What do you use the system for? And services like PiHole or media server?

Oh, sorry, forgot to add that bit.

It's mainly a NAS housing my git-annex repos that I access via SSH.

I also host a few HTTP services on it:

https://github.com/Atemu/nixos-config/blob/ee2d85dc3665ae3cad463a3eb132f806651fe436/configs/SOTERIA/default.nix#L57-L75

The services I use most here are Paperless and Piped.

Mealie will be added to that list as soon as the upstream PR lands which might be later this evening.

My Immich module is almost ready to go but the Immich app has a major bug preventing me from using it properly, so that's on hold for now.

I do want to set up Jellyfin in the not too distant future. The machine should handle that just fine with its iGPU as Intel's Quicksync is quite good and I probably won't even need transcoding for most cases either.

I probably won't be able to get around setting up Nextcloud for much longer. I haven't looked into it much but I already know it's a beast. What I primarily want from it is calendar and contact synchronisation but I'd also like to have the ability to share files or documents with mere mortals such as my SO or family.
The NixOS module hopefully abstracts away most of the complexity here but still...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Makes sense that basic file hosting shouldn't use much power.

Sharing stuff with friends and family is in my plan, eventually, not sure what approach to take yet, but I'd like to avoid an app for them, if I can (people are resistant to apps, I kind of get it).

I've looked at Nextcloud/Owncloud a few times, and it always seems like a lot more than I need, though I also want to move my calendar, contacts, etc, to my own hosting. Not sure what the right answer is, lol.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

My setup already goes quite a bit beyond basic file hosting.

There is no self hosted service I could imagine to need that I'd expect not to be able to host due to CPU constraints. I think I'll run into RAM constraints first; it's already at 3GiB after boot.