[rescue] Computerfests (was: first real server hardware)

[Patrick Finnegan]

On Monday 19 April 2004 16:16, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On Apr 19, 2004, at 4:51 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> >>>>> My goal is to eventually put it back into use as a FW1-NG HA
> >>>>> cluster
> >>>>> when
> >>>>> I can afford the extra $75/month to run it.
> >>>>
> >>>>   $75/mo??  Dude, how much does power cost there?
> >>>
> >>> Too much.  Plus its a major power hog of a system.
> >>
> >>   Seriously, how much?  Here, at $.08/KWh, $75/mo would be over a
> >> kilowatt.  There's no way a box that small could pull that much
> >> power, unless maybe it's liquid-cooled. ;)  And if power *is* that
> >> expensive there, its...
> >
> > In summer of 2000 and 2001, in Tracy CA, we were paying up to
> > $0.297/kWh.
>
>    It is definitely TIME TO MOVE.
>
>    Or, at least it _was_, during the summer of 2000 and 2001.

Around here, it's more like $60 for just under 1.2kW-Months, so 
$0.07/kWh.  Maybe it's TIME TO MOVE to the Midwest. : )

Pat
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