The Hidden Cost of 24/7: Tracking Home Lab Power with Shelly
Introduction As you might know, I manage two home servers for various self-hosted services. I keep everything organized in a GitOps way using ComposeFlux—a tool I built to handle Docker Compose stacks when I got tired of manual updates. (You can read about that journey in GitOps for Homeservers (Part 1)). Recently, I was catching up with a colleague at the office. We were talking about self-hosting, and I mentioned that I run Immich to completely replace Google Photos. He was impressed but then asked the one question I couldn’t answer: “How much are you actually paying for the electricity to run those servers 24/7?” ...