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The original was posted on /r/homelab by /u/ApprehensivePass3726 on 2025-01-19 20:01:57+00:00.
Homelabbing in Germany is just stupidly expensive - how do you still do it?
For example, if you have a decent home server running at 300 watts 24/7, you will easily pay 800-900€ (825-928$) in electricity costs per year - not to mention if you have multiple servers. On top of that, in my town, internet costs of 60€ (62$) per month for a 1g downstream and 50 Mbit upstream line - if you want a synchronous line with 1g upstream, this is firstly hardly possible and secondly extremely expensive.
For the same price you can also rent a much better dedicated server on e.g. Hetzner or simply a VPS.
How do you deal with this?
Electricity costs for an 300 watts server
