Slashing Watts on My Proxmox Homeserver

This is a followup to my previous two articles, first My Homeserver is dying in slow motion and then the old box got replaced in My homeserver is new again…. One of the decisions I made is going Proxmox as Base instead of a bare metal linux with services. Way easier to maintain. But Proxmox by default isn’t built for powersaving at all. Powersaving Homeserver For many of you some kWh a day may not matter, but in Europe where I’m from the electricity prices are terrible expensive for homeusers. In my Region the average home user price per kWh is about 0.38 EUR. So cumulated over the whole year this can make a difference, this is also why the general usage of Devices and standby here is way different compared to some Friends in US or some Asian countries. If I go to Dinner or just 20min to the local market nearby I normally shutdown my desktop. Even if it would be way more convenient to just keep it running. But on my desktop even in idle this is easy alot of Watts a year I could save.…