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Electricity Bill
Topic Started: Jan 23 2013, 11:19 PM (169 Views)
Chet
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KingUchiha
So now that i think about it, the person who hosts NFF on a 24 hour basis must have some crazy electricity bill. :?
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Raikiri Iketani
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GINGR
Do you know what a server is? Better yet, do you know where the NFF server is at?
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Chet
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KingUchiha
Yeah i do but your computer has to be on in order for it to stay up if i'm not mistaken.
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Raikiri Iketani
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GINGR
Alright, so do you know where the server is at?
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Chet
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KingUchiha
No clue
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Raikiri Iketani
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GINGR
It's located at one of the DeVry campuses in California. Pretty sure that one server in addition to however many they already have wouldn't affect their bill significantly.
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Chet
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Oh so they don't actually host it. Is it like a company that host's it?
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Ah a server doesn't use as much power as you think.
What uses most power on a computer is loading the OS GUI which in the windowOS is the window you view everything that helps min, max, rescale, etc, the clickable interface basically.
But on a server they don't have this since you don't use a monitor.
So everything is done with text which makes it more efficient and lowers the amount of power it needs to use.
To get an idea how this is done run command prompt on a windows machine its like using Bourne Shell on a linux server and that is all that is ran.

For example my friend has a server at his house and it uses less energy then his gaming desktop.
So they don't use as much energy as you think unless you have a huge vast network of multible servers then it would get kinda costly but most people don't have that in there basement. xD

Or think of it like this, your freezer is always running right?
And you don't have a huge electric bill.
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Jan 23 2013, 11:23 PM
It's located at one of the DeVry campuses in California. Pretty sure that one server in addition to however many they already have wouldn't affect their bill significantly.
Err, didn't we get a new one, cause we lost access to the other one??

Anyways, Tosen's answer is the best one.
We use a service, which would be running this computer even if we weren't here. Running NFF on it is a very small tiny dint in their electric bill.
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cool!
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I believe we're running on Alex's sever right now gek.
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I wouldn't know
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