[rescue] SET at home servers

Lionel Peterson lionel4287 at gmail.com
Thu Dec 18 13:55:00 CST 2014


I can colo a 1U box (400 watts) with some seemingly reasonable amount of
bandwidth for 7 cents/hr. ($50/mo) I don't think home electricity is any
cheaper than that, is it?

Answered my own question - the U.S. Average is about 12 cents/KWh (from
2011):

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/10/27/141766341/the-price-of-electricity-
in-your-state

Lionel

> On Dec 18, 2014, at 12:18 PM, John Floren <john at jfloren.net> wrote:
>
> I've always been pleasantly surprised at how cheap it is to keep
> computers running 24/7, although the closest I came to one of these
> was a 1U Sun box I had for a while back in college.


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