Hi friends. I’m a newbie in self-hosting, though I’ve been managing (virtual) linux servers at work for a couple of years. I’m completely ignorant on the hardware choices out there, hopefully you can point me to the right direction.
Here are my requisites:
- Low power consumption, I plan to have it connected 24/7 and I’m kinda concerned on how much it will impact the electricity bill
- Ethernet port, preferably gigabit but whatever
- Graphical performance is not important as I don’t plan to connect it to any display. As long as I can ssh into it, I’m good.
Services I plan on installing, for starters:
- casaOS
- pi-hole, or equivalent
- Home Assistant
- Kitchen Owl (nice to have)
- Paperless-ngx (nice to have)
I live in europe and my budget is around 80 euros or so. Thanks in advance!
Yeah same. I have several machines that whirrr all the time. The power cost and usage is fairly negligible. The real costs in the house are appliances. OP will save more energy by getting a more power efficient fridge or dishwasher than worry about a computer being on in the closet
I’ve done a lot of math around this stuff, including measuring device consumption directly with smart switches.
Refrigerator or freezer will average about 70watts/hr. That’s a little over half what my desktop does. Granted, I can’t really get rid of the fridge, haha.
Big consumers for me are refrigeration, dishwasher, and that desktop. It alone is almost 90kw/hr per month. At my rates that’s currently $25/mo. A new mini pc would pay for itself in a matter of months.