CaspianXIJul 10, 2023

Is it normal to calculate how much money you spent running the AC today?

https://lemmy.world/post/1323699

Is it normal to calculate how much money you spent running the AC today? - LemmyWorld

In case you’re wondering, the AC unit in our bedroom costs $0.16/hour. The living room costs $0.50/hour. My wife is trying to make me stop. She says it’s annoying.

Show threadentropicshart

I run a UPS for my home server and have Telegraf collect metrics, which I then feed into Grafana (via influxdb) to create a dashboard that uses my local kWph pricing to plot daily/monthly/quarterly/annual costs to run the server.

It might not be super helpful for some, but it’s helped me justify hosting your applications at home with NAS instead of paying for cloud hosting

Example of the Dashboard (on mobile so not the best screenshot)

Jul 11, 2023 at 12:03amWeb
Show threadMirJul 11, 2023
This is very interesting I’ve been thinking about this a lot. Since I can’t read the graph really well on my phone can you tell me how much on average does it cost per month?
Show threadentropicshartJul 11, 2023
It averages $25 per month - which is hosting 16tb of storage (running 1tb nVME parity and 3x 8tb HDD) to host 5x Virtual Machines and 33x Docker Containers (which includes MariaDB, Postgres, InfluxDB, and Redis containers that receive a good amount of traffic), and a lot of the storage used for media/photo storage/consumption.
Show threadMirJul 11, 2023
That’s really impressive. Thanks for these wonderful insights.