What do you do with your idle servers?
Not sure if this is the right place to ask the question, but there doesn't seem to be an "askgeeks" or something.
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Not sure if this is the right place to ask the question, but there doesn't seem to be an "askgeeks" or something.
do some folding?
(https://foldingathome.org/?lng=en)
Or some BOINCing.
I boinc in an LXC container with a cron job to run during the period in the day on weekdays when the electricity is pretty much all renewables (and I'm not watching Jellyfin). The intention is to turn sunlight into tiny forward progress towards curing cancer.
Specifically, the Community Grid projects Mapping Cancer Markers and Smash Childhood Cancer.
Do you have a recipe or script or something? The docker image seems to assume you're running it on your own computer and will be configuring it with some GUI? But I'm not going to install xfce on my server and RDP into it to get boinc running.
You don't need the GUI, the client does all the work. I use a Debian container, so just
sudo apt-get install boinc-client.Once that's installed, you go to the project (in my case, World Grid) and setup your account. As part of that, it will give you a URL and account key. Then back on your server, you use the
boinccmdto--project_attachthe URL and key.that's a better description than their documentation honestly, ty
thats really great.
Im currently saving up on a new roof of an older farm building, and depending on the utilities I can come up I will put solar panels on it.
I am really thinking how to utilize the extra power, this one sounds like a great addition to an business concept for downtimes.
username checks out.
If your electricity costs you nothing
thats in general the culprit with own server.
but in my place electricity itself costs not much, half of the cost is only taxes and other expenses around the energy.
therefore 200 kwh more or less in a year(that would be 25 watts) is not that much.
Germans with 31c/kwh 😿
My electricity currently costs 65p/kWh...
Youch. Are you getting rammed?
Very much so
I tried finding instructions for running headless on a server, but everything seems to be for desktop users with a GUI. And the code is proprietary for some reason?
If you rent a VPS that might get you kicked, so check your terms first.