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My original Beaglebone has been stuck in a colo facility for a while now (18 months?) and has cost me about $20 of hosting fees so far.

The power consumption is stupidly low, the colo company had to find a different meter to measure it from their normal server oriented one.

I use it as a DNS server, and SSH tunnel destination.

Out of curiosity, where do you have it hosted?

Jump networks are the company, but it's in one of the Telehouse buildings in London

Ooh, so can you just mail them one of these and they'll hook it up, and charge you ?? per month?

Yeah pretty much exactly that.

They gave me an IP address, subnet mask, and gateway, I preconfigured it, and posted them the board in a cheap case, plus the power supply with plug.

They invoice me annually for the power used including an amount of bandwidth which I never come near.

This is the PSU I use:

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