I am trying to capture costs for starting into homelab/selfhosting.

VPNs, search engines, absolutely everything and anything.

    • ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      5 months ago

      You might want to consider Premiumize for Usenet (and torrent cache) at that price. Catch it on the Black Friday sale. I think it does NZB as well.

        • ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          2·
          5 months ago

          Essentially its a paid seed box. It has most things already cached, and if it doesn’t, you can copy in a magnetic link and it’ll torrent it for you and save it to your account cloud (and presumably make it available for other users but it counts against your credits so delete it when you’ve watched it).

          Personally, I’ve rarely had to get it to pull a feed for me, it has nearly everything I’ve wanted cached already.

    • Bytemeister@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 months ago

      $50/year electrical bill for a Pi?!

      Nevermind, I just did some back of the napkin math and came out around 35 a year if I was running one full power 24/7, so yeah, that is the right ballpark guess for a maximum.

        • Bytemeister@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          5 months ago

          I went off the power supply maximum output. 5.1 volts, 3 amps, so 15 watts per hour. 24hrs per day, 365 days a year, so 131,400 watt-hours, or 131kilowatt-hours. My electricity is about $0.25/kwh (advertised at 0.09/kwh, but when you add on bullshit fees, the final rate is much higher), so I came up with $32.85 as the maximum amount any device connected to that power supply could cost.

        • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          5 months ago

          A realistic Pi 4B-only estimate is about A$8–A$12 per year in electricity

          That’s about what I calculated for my locale. Roughly $0.30–$0.85 per month, around $0.48/month at 4 W. Which is remarkable especially given what you can run on one.

            • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              5 months ago

              I’ve got a drawer full of various models I’ve picked up here and there, mostly used that people were selling. I stumbled across a yard sale once where a guy and his son were selling a lot of computer equipment to raise money for his son to get some newer stuff for college. There was a whole box of them, maybe 10+ and I paid $100 for all of them. I use them from time to time for different projects. Good little learning boards.

    • Zetta@mander.xyzEnglish
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      5 months ago

      This is why torrents are better! I torrent the highest quality files I can find so I’d blow through that 500gb quickly.

    • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 months ago

      Usenet…boy that brings back some memories from back in the day. Surprised that it seems to still be going strong.