Not sure if this is the right place to ask the question, but there doesn't seem to be an "askgeeks" or something.
Make all of them run a bogosort on a list of 10-100 items. Whichever one finishes last gets shot. Repeat until you no longer have idle servers
I forget about them until my boss asks me why we are spending so much on cloud services.
Put your Git host's runners on them and you now have free-ish CI minutes!
do some folding?
(https://foldingathome.org/?lng=en)
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.
I'm assuming you're talking about some individual VPC that you're paying for and not using. If you don't do anything with it in a week then just shut it down after downloading a disk image.
That’s a good question!
I have one running an adblocking DNS resolver.
For my business I have one that’s only used as a proxy (dumb IP whitelisting by API provider), another running headless Chrome (scraper for services without API), and another as a VPN. I always feel so wasteful but the majority of these can’t be combined into one server for reasons beyond my control.
For everything else, I containerize. I feel that that is much more energy efficient though I could be wrong.
