Post how many PCs you run 24/7 at home ?

Two PCs, and 1 or two laptops. They're used so often that turning them off during the day isn't that practical. Leaving them on overnight is is a legacy of the days when I ran SETI; there's no reason to do it now though.
 
I have 1 PC (server) running 24/7, which I use as a router, wireless access point, file/print server, webserver, mySQL server etc. I need it on 24/7 as it routes the Internet and serves music / films for the other people in the house, some of who are nocturnal (student house ;)) and because I use it as the main database server for my uni project, which I work on from lots of different places over the 'net (and so can't be around to turn it on) at all times of the day night :).
 
MNuTz said:
why not just buy a wireless/wired router?
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Why when he has an embedded PC?
MNuTz said:
Why do you need 4 PCs for backup/storage? Why not just have one decent server with several huge HDD's in?
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For general 'home' use then I agree, but in an office environment it would be pretty undesirable to have 1 server doing everything, ever heard of single point of failure? :)
 
media pc is on around 4 hours a day in the evenings.
main pc is on daytime/evening depending on what work i have.
gaming pc is only on when i have time to play, a few hours each week at the moment.

i rarely let anything stay on overnight as i don't have a use for it.
 
Five on 24/7, plus a lappie which I occasionally use. The desktops run BOINC (a mix of SETI, Einstein, QMC and LHC), which is why they are on all the time. The elec bill from them is about £60 a month.

And yes, everyone I know thinks thinks this is weird. So what...


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None usually.

Sometimes leave my download rig on when downloading a large file. Other times I might leave it any my main PC on when moving files over the network, which since my mum has decided she wanted to hijack my download rig and have it downstairs means that takes a while over wireless! Only other times my main rig might be on if I decide to watch TV but fall asleep :p

I see no reason why anyway would want or need a PC on 24/7 at home. There is just no need for it.
 
None.

Unless I’m downloading something big. I usually leave it running during the day if I’m in so I can quickly check my emails etc. as I am passing.
 
2 at the moment. 1 mITX 533mhz running xp acting as a rounter (the ethernet port on the cable modem doesn't work, so having to use usb). A 2GHz P4 mITX running linux with vmware hosting a windows 2003 server virtual machine acting as dns and domain controler (usefull to try stuff out on before messing up my servers at work). When I get round to it I'll switch off the routing pc and use the other one for internet.
 
One, downloading and folding.

I don't pay electric and leaving it constantly on avoids the tedium of having to boot it up when I want to use it.
 
RobinL said:
None. Running PCs 24/7 is actually quite expensive!
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No it isn't, at least running one isn't, in my case.

As for running several, I expect a fair few people do that in the Folding forum, or at least that used to be the case.
 
2:

1 really old celery acting as my monowall router
1 newish file, app, wamp, download + game server

used to run all my comps 24/7 but i couldn't see what i was getting out of it apart from a hotter room, a constant headache, lack of sleep due to noise and finally, a whacking great electricity bill.
 
Silent Bob said:
1 mITX 533mhz running xp acting as a rounter (the ethernet port on the cable modem doesn't work, so having to use usb).
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Tell your ISP that your cable modem is bust :D

mITX 533 stinks of what I have as a router is it a Lex system ? If so I dare not even think how long it takes to boot up windows :D Mine runs busybox and some hand crafted daemons so boots up in no time.
 
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