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In fairness neither have I - though I suspect it's not as insignificant as others have claimed.
It's not insignificant at all. Servers are beefy and take more power than a standard PC... a lot more. Further, failover servers mean you have to have exact copies of the same server up and available, which means you're doubling, tripling, quadrupling power demands. Finally, you also have to have Uninterruptible Power Supplies, those take an amount of power as well.
It's a huge power draw. I know because I have a bunch of low-power devices runnig 24/7 as microservices and it still increase my power bill and use by a lot. I regularly get letters from the power company about how I'm using like 3x the power of the average person in my type of unit.
I regularly get letters from the power company about how I'm using like 3x the power of the average person in my type of unit.
I'm also using a lot of self hosted things but have never received any of those.
Where do you reside generally where they're sending them because it ain't a thing here in the UK?
US, west coast.
It's not meant to make a person feel attacked as much as gently nudging them to use less power.
Pretty sure its even automated.
I don't think I'd feel "attacked" but more impressed that I came to light if they sent me them very much like a naughty "copyright warning" and would send it back with a brick in it.
Cheers!
On top of that, even the server setup they talked about wouldn't actually cost that much energy to run, because that's not all that will be running on it. That physical host will likely have dozens or even hundreds of servers running on it, and the small menu serving webserver will account for hardly any of the power draw from the hosts.
Oh, and I almost forgot: the company is going to have a website anyway, what company today serving the public doesn't? Adding a page or two isn't going to raise the power consumption in any measurable way if at all.
I had not considered that an uninterruptible power supply would be consuming power after charging. I suppose no electronics are 100% efficient at what they do.
I've been playing with a Proxmox server on an ITX system for local services and rare game hosting for friends. I'd love something low power I could have on all the time.
