130w average usage for me. Works out at roughly £28/month (damn UK energy prices).

That 130w includes the server, switches and waps.

I built with consumer hardware.

Be Quiet case, with a Dark Rock Pro 4. Only noise I hear from the case is HDD noise when stuff gets written to the array. I’m currently sitting half way betw

Yep! Displays our upcoming meals for the week, and I can tap on a meal to see the recipe.

We have a very old one doing duty (by which I mean VHB taped to the fridge) as a menu display board (using Mealie).

Probably wasteful, but it was a fun project!

I’ve had a homelab for many years. The drive for me to move to full self hosting everything was icloud photos.

Had to reinstall my Mac, and as part of that I wanted to take a full backup of my photo library. Clicked “download originals”… Failed. Tried again, downloaded 2 and failed. Contacted support and was told it would be investigated. 6 weeks later I finally had access to my photos.

I said to my wife “no company should be able to stop us accessing our own stuff, there’s going to be changes”. Beyond email (as I hate running mail servers), 3 years later I use zero cloud services for data.

I don’t really understand people who complain about Nextcloud being slow - for it’s intended use case, it’s generally fine. I’ve run it for ages and never had an issue. It only becomes an issue when you start to abuse its functionality.

For something Nextcloud - reliability, stability and security support/updates matter far more than raw speed. I don’t care if my document takes 2 seconds to load if it means not handing my data to the CCP ;).

My weekend job is working out how to migrate my VPN config over. Once I’ve done that in moving.