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  • I would counter that it takes significantly more power to provide someone with internet compared to a broadcast antenna.

    Google tells me a low power tv antenna broadcasts at around 2.3kw. I’ve deployed datacenters full of racks where each rack pulls more than that. Once you take into account all the networking gear between the server and the consumer, , the internet easily requires more resources. Routers, switches and servers can be pretty power hungry.




















  • Shadow@lemmy.catoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldIdeal Business Stack?
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    5 months ago

    You could do something like nextcloud to solve a lot of issues, but I’d still hesitate to recommend on-prem hardware and managing hardware yourself. It really comes down to the business tolerance for outages though, maybe the computers being down for a day or two doesn’t matter.